Wake-up (or Wake-up for) Stroke: A Treatable Stroke
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Wake-up to wake-up stroke!
is a typical story. a patient arrives at the emergency room. he was well when he went to bed and then he woke up with symptoms suggestive of stroke several hours later. even without further scrutiny, the clinician determines that intravenous thrombolytic therapy is contraindicated. end of story. Such is the plight of patients with wake-up stroke. Can we do more? Can we do better? Wake-up stroke...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Neuroradiology Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1971-4009,2385-1996
DOI: 10.1177/197140091302600511