Why the study?
Does IV tPA increase the risk of recurrent embolism in acute ischemic stroke patients with cardiac thrombus?
Does IV tPA increase the risk of recurrent embolism in acute ischemic stroke patients with cardiac thrombus?
The presence of a cardiac thrombus may not be associated with a high risk of early recurrent embolism in stroke patients receiving IV tPA.
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Cardiac thrombus may not raise early embolism risk with IV tPA; hypothesis-generating and requires larger prospective studies before practice change.
Derex et al. (2001) studied this question.
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