News tagged with clot busting

Patients who wake up with stroke may be candidates for clot-busters

Giving clot-busting drugs to patients who wake up with stroke symptoms appears to be as safe as giving it to those in the recommended three-hour window, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Mar 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Stroke group expands time for clot-busting drugs

(AP) -- A change to stroke treatment guidelines is expanding the time that some patients can get clot-busting drugs. Current recommendations limit the use of the medicine to within three hours after the start of stroke symptoms. ...

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May 28, 2009 | not rated yet | 0