التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Does the sex of acute stroke patients influence the effectiveness of rt-PA? |
| المؤلفون: |
Al-hussain, Fawaz, Hussain, Muhammad S, Molina, Carlos, Uchino, Ken, Shuaib, Ashfaq, Demchuk, Andrew M, Alexandrov, Andrei V, Saqqur, Maher, CLOTBUST Investigators |
| بيانات النشر: |
BioMed Central Ltd. |
| سنة النشر: |
2014 |
| المجموعة: |
BioMed Central |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Sex, Gender, rt-PA, Thrombolysis, Stroke |
| الوصف: |
Background Women have been reported to show more frequent recanalization and better recovery after intravenous (IV) recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) treatment for acute stroke compared with men. To investigate this we studied a series of stroke patients receiving IV rt-PA and undergoing acute transcranial doppler (TCD) examination. Methods Acute stroke patients received IV rt-PA and had acute TCD examination within 4 hours of symptom onset at 4 major stroke centers. TCD findings were interpreted using the Thrombolysis in Brain Ischemia (TIBI) flow grading system. The recanalization rates, and poor 3-month outcomes (modified Rankin scale >2) of men and women were compared using the chi-square test. Multiple regression analysis was used to assess sex as a predictor of recanalization and poor 3-month outcome after controlling for age, baseline NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), time to treatment, hypertension, and blood glucose. Results 369 patients had TCD examinations before or during IV rt-PA treatment. The 199 (53.9%) men and 170 (46.1%) women had mean ages of 67 ± 13 and 70 ± 14 years, respectively. The sexes did not differ significantly in baseline stroke severity, time to TCD examination, or time to thrombolysis. Of the men, 68 (34.2%) had complete recanalization, 58 (29.1%) had partial recanalization, and 73 (36.6%) had no recanalization. Of the women, 53 (31.2%) had complete recanalization, 46 (27%) had partial recanalization, and 71 (41.8%) had no recanalization (p = 0.6). Multiple regression analyses showed no difference between the sexes in recanalization rate, time to recanalization, or clinical outcome at 3 months. Conclusions In our study; sex is not a significant predictor of recanalization rate, time to recanalization or 3-month outcome in stroke patients following IV rt-PA. Trial registration Data from CLOTBUST trial Clinicaltrails.gov Identifier: NCT01240356 . |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/14/60Test |
| الإتاحة: |
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2377/14/60Test |
| حقوق: |
Copyright 2014 Al-hussain et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.532D6DBB |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
