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Susan W Law1, Steven R Levine1
1Stroke Center &Department of Neurology, Kings County Hospital Center &The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 451 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, NY-11203, USA.
Abstract:
In Europe, use of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in patients older than 80 years is discouraged because these patients have been excluded from certain past clinical trials. A new retrospective, observational study shows that tPA can substantially improve functional outcome after ischaemic stroke in patients aged 80–89 years.
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