Wake-up stroke: clinical characteristics, imaging findings, and treatment option – an update.

Abstract<br/>About 25% of all strokes occur during sleep, i.e. without knowledge of exact time of symptom onset. According to licensing criteria, this large group of patients is excluded from treatment with rt-PA, the only specific stroke treatment proven effective in large randomized trials....

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Main Authors: David eRimmele, Götz eThomalla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00035/full