TY - JOUR KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Aged KW - Male KW - Treatment Outcome KW - Aged, 80 and over KW - Administration, Intravenous KW - Fibrinolytic Agents/ administration & dosage KW - Tissue Plasminogen Activator/ administration & dosage KW - Internationality KW - Stroke/ diagnosis/ drug therapy/epidemiology AU - Sandercock P. AU - Cohen G. AU - Lindley R. AU - Wardlaw J. AU - Broderick J. AU - Yeatts S. AU - Khatri P. AU - Tayama D. AB -
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Randomized trial evidence on the risk/benefit ratio of thrombolysis for mild stroke is limited. We sought to determine the efficacy of intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (IV r-tPA) in a subset of patients with mild deficit in the third International Stroke Trial (IST-3). METHODS: IST-3 compared IV r-tPA with control within 6 hours of onset in patients for whom IV r-tPA was considered promising but unproven. Analysis was restricted to subjects randomized within 3 hours of onset with a baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
AD - From the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH (P.K., J.P.B.); Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, CA (D.T.); Division of Clinical Neurosciences (G.C., P.S.), and Division of Neuroimaging Sciences (J.M.W.), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland; Neurological and Mental Health Division, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (R.I.L.); and Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (S.D.Y.). pooja.khatri@uc.edu.BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Randomized trial evidence on the risk/benefit ratio of thrombolysis for mild stroke is limited. We sought to determine the efficacy of intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (IV r-tPA) in a subset of patients with mild deficit in the third International Stroke Trial (IST-3). METHODS: IST-3 compared IV r-tPA with control within 6 hours of onset in patients for whom IV r-tPA was considered promising but unproven. Analysis was restricted to subjects randomized within 3 hours of onset with a baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale
PY - 2015 SN - 1524-4628 (Electronic)