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Stroke Rounds: Kidney Disease Not Always a Barrier to tPA (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- CKD need not prohibit thrombolytic therapy in otherwise eligible stroke patients.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - September 25, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Guidelines on rtPA Brain Bleeds Lack Data (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Current guidelines for treating brain bleeds caused by thrombolytic therapy for strokes are based on empirical evidence alone and widely used treatments may not be adequate, researchers suggested.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - July 29, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Score Predicts Response to Clot Busters
(MedPage Today) -- Higher-risk patients according to a simple risk score incorporating age and stroke severity appear to derive the most benefit from thrombolytic therapy for an acute ischemic stroke, an observational study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - May 6, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Speeding tPA Use, Assuming Consent (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- This week, JAMA released a theme issue on neurology, which contained several studies related to stroke. They included two studies evaluating ways to improve the speed with which thrombolytic therapy is administered and one looking at whether consent to thrombolytic therapy can be assumed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - April 24, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Stroke Rounds: Early Surgery Looks Safe After tPA
(MedPage Today) -- Performing carotid endarterectomy or stenting in patients who were recently treated with thrombolytic therapy for an acute stroke appeared to be safe, an observational study showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - March 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Clot-Busting Drugs Used More Often in Stroke (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Stroke patients eligible for thrombolytic therapy have significantly better odds of receiving the therapy than they did a few years ago, according to a review of more than a million stroke cases.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 23, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news

Endovascular Tx Does Not Top Clot-Buster (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Compared with intravenous thrombolytic therapy, endovascular therapy did not improve outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke, an Italian trial showed.
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - February 6, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news