Efficacy of intravenous thrombolysis in treating cortical and lacunar strokes: analysis from the Qatar Stroke Registry in a multi-ethnic population
Kim H Tran, Naveed Akhtar, Sujatha Joseph, Deborah Morgan, Blessy Babu, Ryan Uy, Ashfaq Shuaib · 2025
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Tran and co-authors test whether clot-busting drugs help two kinds of ischemic stroke equally, using the Qatar stroke registry. One kind strikes the brain's outer cortex, and the other strikes small deep vessels. Their 2025 study matches treated patients with similar untreated patients from 2014 to 2025 and compares recovery at ninety days.
For cortical stroke, treated patients fared clearly better: less disability, lower death rates, and shorter hospital stays. For the small-vessel kind, no measure differed clearly between treated and control groups. A high severity score at arrival predicted poor recovery in both kinds. Diabetes and high blood pressure also marked poor outcomes after cortical stroke. The authors say the drug's benefit in this population concentrates in cortical stroke.
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| CREATOR | Kim H Tran, Naveed Akhtar, Sujatha Joseph, Deborah Morgan, Blessy Babu, Ryan Uy, Ashfaq Shuaib |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |