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Differences in the survival after an episode of stroke treated with thrombolytic therapy. Study Ebrictus.
CONCLUSIONS: After stroke episode treated with thrombolytic therapy, men have 12% higher risk of dying than women and don't be treated with secondary cardiovascular prevention rise 7.7 times the mortality risk. PMID: 24953174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Atencion Primaria - June 18, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Clua-Espuny JL, Ripolles-Vicente R, Lopez-Pablo C, Panisello-Tafalla A, Lucas-Noll J, Calduch-Noll C, González-Henares MA, Queralt-Tomas ML Tags: Aten Primaria Source Type: research

Effectiveness of Early Stroke Thrombolysis Confirmed in Community-Based Study (FREE)
By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and André Sofair, MD, MPH The effectiveness of early thrombolytic therapy after acute stroke observed in randomized trials persists in everyday clinical practice, according to a large, …
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - June 3, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Stroke: Initiative Cuts Time to tPA (CME/CE)
SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- An effort to shorten the time between when patients with acute ischemic stroke arrive at the hospital and when they receive intravenous thrombolytic therapy -- the door-to-needle time -- proved successful, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - February 17, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news