[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 ...

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 ...

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 ...