Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke: feasibility, safety, and efficacy in the first year of clinical practice

Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation
D ChiuJames C Grotta

Abstract

The feasibility, safety, and efficacy of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) for patients with acute ischemic stroke in clinical practice need to be assessed. We initiated a prospective open-label study at a university hospital and two community hospitals in Houston, Tex, immediately after the publication of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) t-PA study. A total of 30 patients, age 32 to 90 years, were treated with 0.9 mg/kg of intravenous t-PA (maximum dose, 90 mg) within 3 hours of acute ischemic stroke between December 1995 and December 1996. Six percent (6%) of all patients hospitalized with ischemic stroke received intravenous t-PA at the university hospital and 1.1% at the community hospitals. The rates of total, symptomatic, and fatal intracerebral hemorrhage were 10%, 7%, and 3%. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of patients recovered to fully independent function. The average time from stroke onset to emergency department arrival was 57 minutes; emergency department arrival to computed tomography scan 41 minutes; and computed tomography scan to administration of treatment 59 minutes. When treatment guidelines are carefully followed in an urban hospital setting, intravenous t-PA for...Continue Reading

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