What does t-PA stand for?

Tissue Plasminogen Activator

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Some ischemic strokes can be treated with clot-busting therapy using tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), which helps dissolve the blockage.

Clot-busting drug may extend stroke therapy window past 9hrs for some

Under current treatment guidelines, ischemic stroke victims are meant to be assessed, scanned and treated with a clot-removing drug called tissue plasminogen activator, or TPA.

Vacuum cleaner that saves stroke victims

Tissue plasminogen activator and total cholesterol decreased, and high-density lipoprotein increased.

Growth hormone decreases visceral fat and improves cardiovascular ...

Lyden has led several regional clinical trials of promising treatments for stroke, including a landmark study of the clot-busting drug, tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), now widely used to protect brain function during stroke.

Dr. Patrick Lyden, M.D.: UCSD Stroke Center

In the Utah study, six patients who were treated with a drug called tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, within 24 hours of injury were compared with 25 other patients who did not receive the drug, and one patient who got the anti-clotting drug later than the 24-hour window.

Stroke drug may also help with frostbite

Drug may help frostbite patients; Fingers, toes saved in study; But ...

The team obtained MR scans immediately before and approximately four hours after administration of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, a drug that dissolves blood clots.

MR helps determine treatment for strokes

The two agents, which were launched in Japan in May 1991, are based on a recombinant tissue plasminogen activator developed by US firm Genentech.

Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, Mitsubishi Pharma Obtain Additional Approval for ...