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SUBMITTER: Barreto AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3250277 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20110701 3
For many decades, intravenous (IV) thrombolytics have been delivered to treat acute thrombosis. Although these medications were originally effective for coronary thrombosis, their mechanisms have proven beneficial for many other disease processes, including ischemic stroke. Treatment paradigms for acute ischemic stroke have largely followed those of cardiology. Specifically, the aim has been to recanalize the occluded artery and to restore perfusion to the brain that remains salvageable. To that ...[more]