Cortical Superficial Siderosis and Risk of Bleeding after Thrombolysis for Ischemic Stroke

Conclusions: The prevalence of CSS in a clinical cohort of stroke patients that received IVT was low and thus does not appear to pose a substantial risk for symptomatic ICH although this may occur in individual patients. However, such analysis also needs to be extended to the very old stroke patients in whom IVT is increasingly used.Cerebrovasc Dis 2015;40:191-197

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Source: Cerebrovascular Diseases - September 9, 2015 Category: Neurology Source Type: research