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Effect of treatment delay, age, and stroke severity on the effects of intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials.
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BACKGROUND: Alteplase is effective for treatment of acute ischaemic stroke but debate continues about its use after longer times since stroke onset, in older patients, and among patients who have had the least or most severe strokes. We assessed the role of these factors in affecting good stroke outcome in patients given alteplase. METHODS: We did a pre-specified meta-analysis of individual patient data from 6756 patients in nine randomised trials comparing alteplase with placebo or open cont...
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- 10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60584-5
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- Lancet More from this journal
- Volume:
- 384
- Issue:
- 9958
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- 1929-1935
- Publication date:
- 2014-11-01
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1474-547X
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0140-6736
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English
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- 2014
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