title: Rescue angioplasty after failed intra-arterial thrombolysis in acute middle cerebral artery stroke: a case report.
abstract: Intra-arterial thrombolysis is increasingly being used in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke with a failure rate of recanalization as high as 66%. We describe a case of acute ischemic stroke secondary to occlusion of the middle cerebral artery that failed intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy but responded to rescue balloon angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: NJ Neuroscience Institute, Edison, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Pinky
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Borden
authors.forename: Walter A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Souvik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017130:Angioplasty; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery; D019233:Retreatment; D020521:Stroke / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome