Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage After Intravenous Thrombolysis Administration in an Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient with Chronic Pontine Microbleeds, a Case Report

Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage After Intravenous Thrombolysis Administration in an Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient with Chronic Pontine Microbleeds, a Case Report

Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) is the most concerning complication of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen (rTPA) occurring in 6% of cases and is associated with a 50% mortality. The presence of pre-thrombolysis cerebral microbleeds (CMB) is considered a risk fac...

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Main Authors: Samantha Anne S. Gutierrez, MD, Christian Oliver C. Co, MD, Evita C. Trias, RN, Maria Carissa C. Pineda-Franks, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Subjects:
Brainstem microbleeds
Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage
Intravenous thrombolysis
Acute ischemic stroke
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751920305259

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