Stroke group expands time for clot-busting drugs
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
(AP) -- A change to stroke treatment guidelines is expanding the time that some patients can get clot-busting drugs. Current recommendations limit the use of the medicine to within three hours after the start of stroke symptoms. That treatment window is now being lengthened to 4 1/2 hours for some patients.
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