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Validation assessment of risk tools to predict outcome after thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
Thrombolytic therapy generally improves clinical outcome after acute ischemic stroke, but the decision to administer thrombolytics may be challenging because of hemorrhagic complications and poor response in some patients [1–4]. Many models for risk stratification of thrombolytic treatment have been developed to support the clinician in this complex decision-making process.
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 14, 2014 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Robbert-Jan Van Hooff, Koenraad Nieboer, Ann De Smedt, Maarten Moens, Peter Paul De Deyn, Jacques De Keyser, Raf Brouns Source Type: research

Thrombolytic therapy in total mismatch with severe stroke after acute MCA-occlusion and negative DWI
Total mismatch is a recently described magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pattern in acute stroke patients with no signal changes in diffusion weighted images (DWI) and extensive hypoperfusion on perfusion weighted images (PWI). The prognostic value and importance for treatment decision based on this finding in MRI have recently been controversially discussed in patients with minor stroke . Here we report a case of a 98-year-old woman that presented with severe stroke and total mismatch in the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory in MRI scan and an occlusion of the proximal MCA (M1) in time-of flight MR angiography (T...
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 6, 2012 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Lars Neeb, Frederik Geisler, Matthias Wendt, Andrea Rocco, Jochen B. Fiebach, Kersten Villringer Tags: Case reports Source Type: research