Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Pretreated With Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants: An Editorial Review

Georgios Tsivgoulis; Apostolos Safouris

doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.017206

Intravenous Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Pretreated With Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants: An Editorial Review

Stroke. 2017 Jul;48(7):2031-2033. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.017206. Epub 2017 May 23.

Authors

Georgios Tsivgoulis¹, Apostolos Safouris²

Affiliations

¹ From the Second Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Greece (G.T., A.S.); Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (G.T.); and Acute Stroke Unit, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece (A.S.). tsivgoulisgiorg@yahoo.gr.
² From the Second Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, "Attikon" University Hospital, Greece (G.T., A.S.); Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (G.T.); and Acute Stroke Unit, Metropolitan Hospital, Piraeus, Greece (A.S.).

PMID: 28536167
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.017206

No abstract available

Keywords: acute ischemic stroke; intravenous thrombolysis; non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants; onset-to-treatment time; symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Administration, Intravenous
Administration, Oral
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use*
Fibrinolytic Agents / therapeutic use*
Humans
Stroke / drug therapy*
Thrombolytic Therapy / methods*

Substances

Anticoagulants
Fibrinolytic Agents