Shorter Door-to-Needle Times Are Associated With Better Outcomes After Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy and Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Shumei ManNicole SolomonBrian Mac GroryBrooke AlhantiKen UchinoJeffrey L SaverEric Edward SmithYing XianDeepak L BhattLee S SchwammMuhammad Shazam HussainGregory Y H LipPublished in: Circulation (2023)
Among older patients with stroke treated with either IVT only or IVT+EVT, shorter DTN times are associated with better long-term functional outcomes and lower mortality. These findings support further efforts to accelerate thrombolytic administration in all eligible patients, including EVT candidates.
Keyphrases
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- prognostic factors
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