"There is a trend toward treating more patients with thrombolytic therapy, " said Dr . William J . Rogers, of the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham.
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Somewhere between 20 percent and 30 percent of all women who are hospitalized after experiencing an acute heart attack are eligible for treatment with the clot-busting drugs, called thrombolytic therapy.
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"Given the low survival experience of older persons following acute ( heart attacks ), claims that thrombolytic therapy is underused in this patient population are particularly disconcerting, " wrote Drs.
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For this reason a seizure during an acute stroke is generally accepted to be a relative contraindication to thrombolytic therapy, especially in the absence of documented cerebrovascular occlusion using vascular imaging techniques.
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After they adjusted for the age, health and other differences between the male and female patients, women were still 15 percent more likely to die after receiving thrombolytic therapy, the researchers said.
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In a related study published in April in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 451 patients at 11 community hospitals in Maryland and Massachusetts were randomly assigned to receive thrombolytic therapy or angioplasty.
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In cases of chronic stable AF without any other risk factors for thromboembolism, the Seventh American College of Chest Physicians ( ACCP ) Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy recommends initiating warfarin without heparin bridging.
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Prof . Hacke was actively involved in the development of both interventional intra-arterial and intravenous thrombolytic therapy, has pioneered hypothermia and decompressive surgery in malignant MCA-infarction and was instrumental for building the German Stroke Unit Network.
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The multidisciplinary approach combining angiography, high-resolution ultrasound, thrombolytic therapy, plaque pathology, histochemistry, coagulation studies, and more recently molecular biology has led to the realisation that carotid plaque rupture is a key mechanism underlying the development of cerebrovascular events.
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Out of the more than 250 patients who were considered ideal candidates, meaning they arrived at the hospital within six hours of their symptoms starting, had chest pains and no known problems with thrombolytic therapy, 64 patients didn't get the drugs.
