Acute Stroke Management in Japan
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[Acute stroke management in Japan].
One of the most important causes of long-term disability in both Japan and other Western countries is stroke. Although intravenous thrombolysis using recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV rt-PA) was approved in United States and Japan, few patients have been treated by IV rt-PA. The low utilization of IV rt-PA at present is quite similar to the Japanese national estimate. One of the most...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rinsho Shinkeigaku
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0009-918X,1882-0654
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.826