Thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke patients with cardiac thrombus

Autor: M. Perinetti, Jérôme Honnorat, Paul Trouillas, Norbert Nighoghossian, Laurent Derex
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Neurology. 57(11)
ISSN: 0028-3878
Popis: The authors describe the outcome of five patients with a cardiac thrombus selected among 183 patients with stroke (2.7 %) who were given IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). No early systemic or cerebral embolism occurred. Two patients made a complete recovery at 3 months. Two patients had a moderate outcome. One patient had late recurrent cerebral embolism and died. These data suggest that the presence of a cardiac thrombus is not associated with a high risk of recurrent embolism in patients with stroke who are given IV tPA.
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