1. Rescue angioplasty after failed intra-arterial thrombolysis in acute middle cerebral artery stroke: A case report
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Neil M. Borden, Walter A. Tan, Pinky Agarwal, and Souvik Sen
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Middle Cerebral Artery ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Arterial Occlusive Diseases ,Balloon ,Angioplasty ,Internal medicine ,medicine.artery ,Occlusion ,Humans ,Medicine ,Thrombolytic Therapy ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Treatment Failure ,Acute ischemic stroke ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Thrombolysis ,Stroke ,Intra arterial thrombolysis ,Treatment Outcome ,Retreatment ,Middle cerebral artery ,Cardiology ,Female ,Middle cerebral artery stroke ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Intra-arterial thrombolysis is increasingly being used in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke with a failure rate of recanalization as high as 66%. We describe a case of acute ischemic stroke secondary to occlusion of the middle cerebral artery that failed intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy but responded to rescue balloon angioplasty.
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- 2004
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