Temporal trends in acute stroke management.
Temporal trends in acute stroke management.
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.113.001457
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发表时间:
2013-06
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8.3
通讯作者:
Adeoye O
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作者:
Kleindorfer D;de los Rios La Rosa F;Khatri P;Kissela B;Mackey J;Adeoye O
S130 Stroke June 2013 study. If some of these criteria were not required, it is possible that the percentage of eligible patients, and thereby the number of stroke patients receiving this therapy, would increase. For example, treating patients with mild stroke deficits could potentially at least double the rate of rt-PA use. 10 However, further study is needed to determine the benefit of rt-PA within this population.An exclusion criterion recently reconsidered was the extremely limited time window for giving lytic therapy. In 2008, the European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study (ECASS)-III study successfully expanded the time window for acute treatment with thrombolytic therapy from 0 to 3 hours to 0 to 4.5 hours from symptom onset. 2 This prompted the American Heart Association to publish an advisory statement recommending treatment in the expanded time window of 3 to 4.5 hours, in the setting of ECASS-III eligibility criteria (age,< 80 years; no oral anticoagulants regardless of serum coagulation testing, no patients with a history of both diabetes mellitus and a prior stroke, and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale must be< 25). 11 This expanded time window within a population, however, leads to the disappointing finding that this expansion adds very few additional eligible stroke patients. In the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky population, the combination of the expanded time window for treatment, along with the additional ECASSIII exclusion criteria, would have only led to an additional 0.6% more ischemic stroke patients becoming eligible for rt-PA in 2005. 12 This is related to the bimodal distribution of times that ischemic stroke patients present to medical attention. Only 9% of all stroke patients arrive in the 3-to 8-hour time window. 8 Stroke patients tend to arrive very early or quite late. This finding has also been confirmed in other populations. 9 Furthermore, the Federal Drug Administration denied approval of the expansion of the time window for the approved uses of rt-PA, which may further minimize the impact of the expanded time window. In summary, the rate of rt-PA use in ischemic stroke patients remains low in the United States. This is most likely related to eligibility for thrombolytic therapy, especially the very