“clot-busting”

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For Physicians The standard of care for acute ischemic stroke in most of today?s hospital stroke centers is the administering of a clot-busting medication tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) within 3 to 4 1/2 hours of symptom onset. However, if the patient has missed the opportunity for early care, or tPA treatment has failed to fully dissolve the clot, alternative minimally invasive interventional clot removal treatments exist that may be used up to eight hours after the start of symptoms