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. 2016 Jan;12(1):8-9.
doi: 10.1038/nrneurol.2015.231. Epub 2015 Dec 16.

Stroke. Support for IV tPA in ischaemic stroke in elderly people

Susan W Law  1 , Steven R Levine  1
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Stroke. Support for IV tPA in ischaemic stroke in elderly people

Susan W Law et al. Nat Rev Neurol. 2016 Jan.

Abstract

In Europe, use of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in patients older than 80 years is discouraged because these patients have been excluded from certain past clinical trials. A new retrospective, observational study shows that tPA can substantially improve functional outcome after ischaemic stroke in patients aged 80–89 years.

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