Impact of Smoking on Clinical Outcome and Recanalization After Intravenous Thrombolysis for Stroke [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—Our study suggests that good outcome in smokers is mainly related to differences in baseline characteristics and not to biological effects of smoking. The higher recanalization rates in smokers, however, call for further studies.

Source: Stroke - April 23, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Rebekka Kurmann, Stefan T. Engelter, Patrik Michel, Andreas R. Luft, Susanne Wegener, Meret Branscheidt, Elissavet Eskioglou, Gaia Sirimarco, Philippe A. Lyrer, Henrik Gensicke, Thomas Horvath, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Hakan Sarikaya Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke, Ischemic Stroke Original Contributions Source Type: research