title: Actual trends in diagnosis/thrombolytic therapy of acute cerebral stroke.
abstract: The recent reports confirm the idea that the selection of cerebral stroke patients for thrombolysis should be performed by MRI. These studies suggested that DWI/PWI/MRA may be able to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from thrombolytics, and that the PWI>DWI pattern in particular is associated with an improved outcome from thrombolytic therapy. However, many questions remain unanswered and a lot of work is necessary before MRI guided thrombolysis in acute cerebral stroke becomes a part of the standard care.
authors: Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University Hospital V.U.B. Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090, Brussels, Belgium. cradeux@az.vub.ac.be
authors: T W
authors: TW
authors: Stadnik
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Osteaux
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy