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Do patients with acute vertebrobasilar occlusion benefit from an aggressive treatment strategy?

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine volume 2, pages 564–565 (2005)Cite this article

boxed-textEckert B et al. (2005) Aggressive therapy with intravenous abciximab and intra-aterial rtPA and additional PTA/stenting improves clinical outcome in acute vertebrobasilar occlusion. Combined local fibrinolysis and intravenous abciximab in acute vertebrobasilar stroke treatment (FAST): results of a multicenter study. Stroke 36: 1160–1165

Eckert et al. do not provide convincing evidence that adding intravenous abciximab to intra-arterial thrombolysis will improve the clinical outcomes of patients with basilar artery stenosis

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The synopsis was written by Hannah Camm, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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A comparison of published clinical outcomes of patients with basilar artery or bilateral vertebral artery occlusion.

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