• DOI:10.1161/01.STR.30.8.1528
Corpus ID: 34456418

Agreement and variability in the interpretation of early CT changes in stroke patients qualifying for intravenous rtPA therapy.

@article{Grotta1999AgreementAV,
  title={Agreement and variability in the interpretation of early CT changes in stroke patients qualifying for intravenous rtPA therapy.},
  author={J. Grotta and D. Chiu and M. Lu and S. Patel and S. Levine and B. Tilley and T. Brott and E. Haley and P. Lyden and R. Kothari and M. Frankel and C. Lewandowski and R. Libman and T. Kwiatkowski and J. Broderick and J. Marler and J. Corrigan and S. Huff and P. Mitsias and S. Talati and D. Tanne},
  journal={Stroke},
  year={1999},
  volume={30 8},
  pages={
          1528-33
        }
}

J. Grotta, D. Chiu, +18 authors D. Tanne

Published 1999

Medicine

Stroke

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Ischemic changes identified on CT scans performed in the first few hours after stroke onset, which are thought to possibly represent early cytotoxic edema and development of irreversible injury, may have important implications for subsequent treatment. However, insecurity and conflicting data exist over the ability of clinicians to correctly recognize and interpret these changes. We performed a detailed review of selected baseline CT scans from the NINDS rt-PA Stroke… CONTINUE READING

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