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In this retrospective analysis we report our treatment experience in 65 consecutive patients with clinical signs of severe brainstem ischemia with angiographically demonstrated thrombotic vertebrobasilar artery occlusions who received either local intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy(urokinase or streptokinase)(43 patients)or conventional therapy(antiplatelet agents or anticoagulants)(22 patients).We analyzed the data with respect to cerebral artery occlusion patterns,posttreatment arterial recanalization,and the clinical categories of favorable/unfavorable outcome and survival/death.In subgroup analyses,recanalization in patients who received thrombolytic therapy correlated significantly with clinical outcome;in 19 of 43 patients,recanalization was demonstrated angiographically,while in 24 patients the occlusion persisted.All patients without recanalization died, but 14 of the 19 patients displaying recanalization survived(p=0.000007), 10 with a favorable clinical outcome.Only three of the 22 patients who received conventional therapy survived,all with a moderate clinical deficit.When we compared the treatment groups,highly significant differences in both outcome quality(p=0.017)and survival(p=0.0005)were found to depend on establishing recanalization.Our data support the concept that technically successful thrombolysis of vertebrobasilar artery occlusions is associated with beneficial clinical outcome. |
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anticoagulant,treatment in CVD
basilar artery occlusion
cerebrovascular accident
cerebrovascular accident,acute management of
cerebrovascular accident,thrombolytic agents in treatment
fibrinolytic agents
fibrinolytic agents,intra-arterial local infusion
streptokinase
treatment of neurologic disorder
urokinase
vertebral artery occlusion
vertebral-basilar insufficiency
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