Proximal hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign predicts poor response to thrombolysis.

The aim of our study was to compare the rapid neurological improvement after intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rtPA) in patients with proximal hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign (p-HMCAS) to those without the sign and those with the distal hyperdense middle cerebral arte...

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Main Authors: Qi Li, Stephen Davis, Peter Mitchell, Richard Dowling, Bernard Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4013049?pdf=render