Rheumatoid meningitis presenting with a stroke-like attack treated with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator: a case presentation.
Masashi AkamatsuFutaba MakiHisanao AkiyamaDaisuke HaraMasashi HoshinoYasuhiro HasegawaPublished in: BMC neurology (2018)
CT-based decision-making for rt-PA injection is reasonable, but MRI is needed for the early diagnosis of RMSA. In this case, it is particularly important that neither adverse events nor bleeding complications were observed, suggesting the safety of CT-based thrombolytic therapy in RMSA.
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