Subarachnoid hemorrhage after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a case report.
Intracranial hemorrhage is the most feared complication of thrombolytic therapy. This report describes a 42-year-old diabetic woman who presented with an acute myocardial infarction and suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage after receiving recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. This report discusses this important but very rare complication of thrombolytic therapy.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
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