Intravenous Thrombolysis for Stroke Recurring Within 3 Months From the Previous Event

Michal Karlinski1, Adam Kobayashi1, Anna Czlonkowska2

  • 1From the 2nd Department of Neurology (M.K., A.K., A.C.), and Interventional Stroke and Cerebrovascular Treatment Centre (A.K.), Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland (A.C.); International Clinical Research Center and Neurology Department, St Anne's Hospital in Brno and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (R.M.); Neurology Department, Ostava-Vítkovice Hospital, Research and Training Institute, Ostrava Czech Republic (D.V.); Neurology Department, University Hospital Nitra, Constantin Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia (M.B.); Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia (Z.G.); Department of Vascular Neurology and Neurological Intensive Care, University Medical Centre Ljubljana and Zdravstveni Nasveti, Slovenia (V.Š.); Department of Neurology, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Hungary (L.C., K.F.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Tartu, Estonia (J.K.); Medical Center Aviva, Zagreb, Croatia (V.D.); Department of Neurology, University Hospital "Sestre Milosrdnice", Zagreb, Croatia (V.B.-K.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vilnius University and Republican Vilnius University Hospital, Lithuania (A.V.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University and Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Clinics, Lithuania (D.J.); Stroke Rehabilitation and Research Center, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Memorial Health Group Stroke Center, Istanbul, Turkey (Y.K.); Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Pirogov Russian National Medical University, Moscow, Russia (N.S.); Department of Neurological Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Varna, Bulgaria (S.A.); and Department of Neurology, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna and Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (N.A., N.W.).

Stroke
|October 10, 2015
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