• Medicine
• Published in Stroke 1999
• DOI:10.1161/01.STR.30.8.1528

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={James C. Grotta and David Y. T. Chiu and Minmin Lu and Smitaa Patel and Steven R. Levine and Barbara C. Tilley and Thomas Brott and E. Clarke Haley and Patrick D Lyden and Rashmi U. Kothari and M Frankel and Christopher A. Lewandowski and Richard B. Libman and Tom Kwiatkowski and J P Broderick and John R. Marler and John Michael Corrigan and Shelley Huff and Panayiotis D. Mitsias and Ss Talati and David Tanne},
  journal={Stroke},
  year={1999},
  volume={30 8},
  pages={
          1528-33
        }
}

• James C. Grotta, David Y. T. Chiu, +18 authors David Tanne

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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