Clot-buster Boosts Survival, Decreases Disability For Deadly Subset Of Stroke, Johns Hopkins University Study

ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2009) — New results from a multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins show that patients who got an experimental clot-busting treatment for a particularly lethal form of stroke were not only dramatically more likely to survive but also continued to shed lingering disabilities six months later.

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