Word: tpa
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...larger research project into hospitals’ performance in quality improvement campaigns for stroke patients, including the American Stroke Association-based “Get With the Guidelines.” It will appear in the November issue of the journal Stroke. The drug in question, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), is the only clot-dissolving drug approved in the treatment of strokes and can only be used within three hours after symptom onset, according to Eric E. Smith, lead author of the study and assistant neurologist at MGH Stroke Service. Some doctors avoid using tPA at early stages of stroke...
...Laboratories, a large drug company, left to become president of Genentech. To prepare for the introduction of Protropin, Raab helped build a national marketing organization, which includes 15 hospital-based sales representatives with an average of 15 years' experience. Now Raab is working on plans to sell interferon and TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), a drug that dissolves blood clots and thus may help prevent heart attacks...
...treatment is speed. As the American Stroke Association's slogan puts it: "Time lost is brain lost." The clot-busting drug TPA, for example, has to be delivered within a critical treatment window that closes about three hours after symptoms first appear. The most exciting research presented at the 29th International Stroke Conference in San Diego last week was advances aimed at opening that window a little wider. Among them...
...tPA becomes more powerful, strokes will become less...