Patients who wake up with stroke may be candidates for clot-busters
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
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 Houston.
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