Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Most Stroke Patients Not Getting Clot-Busting Treatment in Timely Manner


ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2011) — Less than one-third of acute stroke patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) receive the clot-busting drug within 60 minutes of their hospital arrival, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011. The research is simultaneously published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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