title: Fibromuscular Dysplasia and Intravenous Thrombolytic Treatment.
abstract: Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), which usually affects middle-aged and older women, is a non-atheromatous and non-inflammatory angiopathy. Definitive diagnosis is made only by angiography showing classic string-of-beads appearance. In this article, we present a patient with acute ischemic stroke due to FMD who was successfully treated with thrombolytic therapy as well as to revise the approach to FMD in the light of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Taylan
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Peköz
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Şebnem
authors.initials: Ş
authors.lastname: Biçakci
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: İlker
authors.initials: İ
authors.lastname: Öztürk
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kezban
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Aslan
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Hacer
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bozdemir
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Neurology, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Koç
keywords: Fibromuscular dysplasia; stroke; thrombolytic treatment