Negative Diffusion-Weighted Imaging After Intravenous Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator is Rare and Unlikely to Indicate Averted Infarction
Stroke2013Vol. 44(6), pp. 1629–1634
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Jason Freeman, Marie Luby, José G. Merino, Lawrence L. Latour, Sungyoung Auh, Shlee Song, Alejandro Magadán, J.A. Lynch, Steven Warach, Amie W. Hsia
Abstract
Averted infarction after IV tPA is rare, occurring in 0.9% of patients with pretreatment positive DWI evidence of acute ischemia. For IV tPA-treated patients who have a negative DWI on follow-up imaging, a cause other than acute stroke should be explored.
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