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Tenecteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment
Semin Neurol DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1722722The introduction of thrombolytic therapy in the 1990s has transformed acute ischemic stroke treatment. Thus far, intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) also known as alteplase is the only thrombolytic proven to be efficacious and approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. But the thrombolytic agent tenecteplase (TNK) is emerging as a potential replacement for rt-PA. TNK has greater fibrin specificity, slower clearance, and higher resistance to plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 than rt-PA. Hence, TNK has the potential to provide superior lysis wi...
Source: Seminars in Neurology - January 20, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Baird, Alison E. Jackson, Richard Jin, Weijun Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

Early Ischemic Blood Brain Barrier Damage: A Potential Indicator for Hemorrhagic Transformation Following Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) Thrombolysis?
Abstract Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) thrombolysis, remains the only United States Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approvedtreatmentfor acute ischemia stroke. However, the use of tPA has been profoundly constraineddue to its narrow therapeutic time window and the increased risk of potentially deadly hemorrhagic complications. TPA-associated hemorrhagic transformation (HT) often occurs as a result of catastrophic failure of theblood brain barrier (BBB), wherein the affected cerebral capillaries can no longer hold blood constituents.Due to its direct contribution to edema and HT, reperfusion-associated BBB d...
Source: Current Neurovascular Research - May 30, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Jin X, Liu J, Liu W Tags: Curr Neurovasc Res Source Type: research