Predicting symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis: Stroke territory as a potential pitfall
Conclusions: The risk of SICH after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with posterior circulation stroke was low enough to render the SITS SICH risk score or other similar prediction models unnecessary. Awareness of stroke territory might help clinicians judiciously use the risk assessment models.
Source: Journal of the Neurological Sciences - Category: Neurology Authors: Sheng-Feng Sung, Chih-Hung Chen, Yu-Wei Chen, Mei-Chiun Tseng, Hsiu-Chu Shen, Huey-Juan Lin Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research