Safety and Outcomes of Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy in Ischemic Stroke Patients with COVID-19: CASCADE Initiative

• Main Authors: Payam Sasanejad, Leila Afshar Hezarkhani, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Abdoreza Ghoreishi, Barlinn Kristian, Jan Rahmig, Mehdi Farhoudi, Elyar Sadeghi Hokmabadi, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Payam Sariaslani, Athena Sharifi-Razavi, Kavian Ghandehari, Alireza Khosravi, Craig Smith, Yongchai Nilanont, Yama Akbari, Thanh N. Nguyen, Anna Bersano, Nawaf Yassi, Takeshi Yoshimoto, Simona Lattanzi, Animesh Gupta, Ramin Zand, Shahram Rafie, Seyede Pourandokht Mousavian, Mohammad Reza Shahsavaripour, Shahram Amini, Saltanat U. Kamenova, Aida Kondybayeva, Murat Zhanuzakov, Elizabeth M. Macri, Christa O.Hana S. Nobleza, Sean Ruland, Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, Masoom J. Desai, Annemarei Ranta, Amir Moghadam Ahmadi, Mahtab Rostamihosseinkhani, Razieh Foroughi, Etrat Hooshmandi, Fahimeh H. Akhoundi, Ashfaq Shuaib, David S. Liebeskind, James Siegler, Jose G. Romano, Stephan A. Mayer, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Babak Zamani, Amadene Woolsey, Yasaman Fazli, Khazaei Mojtaba, Christian F. Isaac, Jose Biller, Mario Di Napoli, M. Reza Azarpazhooh
• Other Authors: Kazakh Russian Medical University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/77518
• Institution: Mahidol University

Background: There is little information regarding the safety of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV-tPA) in patients with stroke and COVID-19. Methods: This multicenter study included consecutive stroke patients with and without COVID-19 treated with IV-tPA between February 18, 2019, to Dec...