IMSAInternational Medical Sciences Academy

JIMSA › Vol 19 No 2 · April–June 2006

Article · pages 128–129

Acute ischemic Stroke

Is Thrombolysis need of the hour? A Clinical debate - - V ijay K. Dixit

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Is Thrombolysis need of the hour? A Clinical debate - - V ijay K. Dixit. Acute ischemic Stroke. J Int Med Sci Acad. 2006;19(2):128–129.

Opening of the article

Thrombolytic treatment of stroke patients remains a controversial topic in clinical medicine.Contemporary acute ischemic stroke therapy protocols opt for time and ignore specificity. Therapeutic decisions regarding whether to use thrombolytics are complex and depend on more than simply the time that has expired since stroke symptom onset and findings on CT scan.

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