News tagged with tissue plasminogen activator
Study expands window for effective stroke treatment
May 28, 2009 |
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Once symptoms start, there's only a tiny window of time for stroke victims to get life-saving treatment. Now, research from the Stanford University School of Medicine has cracked that window open a bit wider.
Researchers use stroke patient's own stem cells in trial for first time
Apr 15, 2009 |
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For the first time in the United States, a stroke patient has been intravenously injected with his own bone marrow stem cells as part of a research trial at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
Patients who wake up with stroke may be candidates for clot-busters
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Giving clot-busting drugs to patients who wake up with stroke symptoms appears to be as safe as giving it to those in the recommended three-hour window, according to researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at ...
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Friend or foe? How the body's clot-busting system speeds up atherosclerosis
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Sometimes it's hard to tell friends from foes, biologically speaking. Naturally produced in the body, urokinase plasminogen activator and plasminogen interact to break up blood clots and recruit clean-up cells to clear away ...
Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Inhibiting an enzyme in the brains of newborns suffering from oxygen and blood flow deprivation stops a type of brain damage that is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and death, according to researchers ...
In preeclampsia, researchers identify proteins that cause blood vessel damage
Mar 19, 2007 |
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Proteins released by the placenta may damage blood vessels in women with preeclampsia (PE), according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation Conference ...
In Preeclampsia, Researchers Identify Proteins that Cause Blood Vessel Damage
Mar 15, 2007 |
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Proteins released by the placenta may damage blood vessels in women with preeclampsia (PE), according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation Conference ...
Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 -- a potential link between heart failure and diabetes
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Vermont Cardiovascular Research Institute, Colchester, Vermont have found that increased expression in the heart of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1) is profibrotic. The results, ...
Stroke therapy window might be extended past nine hours for some
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Some patients who suffer a stroke as a result of a blockage in an artery in the brain may benefit from a clot-busting drug nine or more hours after the onset of symptoms. The findings are published in the online edition of ...
Blocking toxic effects could make clot-buster safer
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Since the introduction of the life-saving clot-busting drug tPA more than a decade ago, evidence has been accumulating that tPA (tissue-type plasminogen activator) can be a double-edged sword for a brain affected by stroke. ...
Post-stroke clot-busting therapy beneficial for patients on aspirin
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Patients given a clot-busting drug following stroke appear to have better outcomes if they were already taking anti-platelet medications, despite an apparent increased risk for bleeding in the brain, according to an article ...
Not a moment to lose in therapy for acute stroke
Sep 24, 2008 |
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In an editorial response to a report in the September 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine on the efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis treatment in the hours after acute ischemic stroke, Patrick Lyden, M.D., profes ...
Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
May 17, 2007 |
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University of Cincinnati scientists have developed a model that could help physicians combine current clot-busting medication with below-normal body temperatures (hypothermia) to improve the treatment of ischemic stroke patients.
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