Letter to Editor: Consideration Needed for Early Anticoagulation Following Intravenous tPA in Patients with COVID-19

We read the article by Carneiro et al with great interest1. We have similar experiences at two downtown Los Angeles certified stroke centers with the use of intravenous tPA. However, there are concerning observations lately among COVID-19 patients who developed large vessel re-occlusions shortly after their original stroke symptoms were aborted by intravenous tPA.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - April 2, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Angelo Jimenez, Arvind Ravinutala, Jonathan Eskenazi, Prissilla Xu, Antonio Liu Source Type: research