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View Post: MedWire News - Stroke - Head-to-head tenecteplase versus alteplase ...
11 Mar 2009
MedWire News Tenecteplase should be directly compared with alteplase in randomized trials, say researchers who report that the thrombolytic performs well in imaging-selected stroke patients treated beyond the standard therapeutic window ...
View Blog: MedWire News - Stroke - http://www.medwire-news.md/39/Stroke.html

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View Post: Heart Attack: Precious Life-Saving Guidelines – Part II
29 Sep 2009 by admin  
A comparison was drawn regarding the post tenecteplase angioplasty that could be performed a couple of hours IV bolus of tenecteplase with PAMI. The trial revealed that primary and secondary end points were analogous in both. ...
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View Post: tenecteplase up to 6 hours after acute ischemic stroke shows promise
30 Mar 2009
new york (reuters health) - in a pilot study of acute ischemic stroke patients, intravenous tenecteplase administered using advanced imaging guidance in an extended window of 3 to 6 hours after stroke onset yielded greater reperfusion ...
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View Post: prehospital thrombolysis for ami to be studied in new clinical trial
20 Jul 2009 by thinkdavis  
tenecteplase is a single-bolus thrombolytic agent approved in the usa in 2000 and by the european commission in 2001 for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction (ami). tenecteplase is the first “clot-buster” that can be ...
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View Post: administering tenecteplase during cpr does not improve outcomes ...
19 Dec 2008
(december 17, 2008 - insidermedicine) there does not appear to be any benefit to administering tenecteplase during cpr among patients undergoing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to research in the new england journal of ...
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View Post: adding tenecteplase to pre-hospital cpr for cardiac arrest due to ...
18 Dec 2008
thrombolysis with tenecteplase gave no benefits when added to advanced cardiac life-support measures in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to acute myocardial infarction (mi), according to a randomised controlled trial. ...
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