[33] Fibrinolytic therapy can be administered in most centers within 30 to 60 minutes of arrival, and since fibrinolytic therapy usually opens the occluded artery within 60-90 minutes, this ...

is the only drug that is specifically approved for the treatment of ischaemic stroke at present. It is a serine protease that converts the zymogen plasminogen into the fibrinolytic enzyme plasmin ...

the absolute excess risk of stroke in patients older than age 75 years receiving thrombolytic treatment was <1%, and there was no age-associated excess in the risk of other major bleeding ...

retrospectively analyzed data from two trials of fibrinolytic therapy in STEMI to determine ... myocardial infarction or stroke at 24 h (odds ratio [OR] 1.05, 95% CI 0.91–1.21) or at 7 days ...