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Published on Thursday, Sep 25, 2008
LOS ANGELES: Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an important new study suggests.
The finding could potentially extend treatment to thousands more people each year and prevent many from being left disabled. However, it does not change long-standing advice that stroke victims seek immediate help if they feel sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm or leg.
''Don't wait,'' said Dr. Larry Goldstein, director of Duke University's stroke center and a spokesman for the American Stroke Association. ''If you think you are having symptoms, call 911.''
The study by European doctors found that the clot dissolver could safely be given up to 41/2 hours after the start of symptoms.
Results appear today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Stroke is the nation's No. 3 killer and the leading cause of disability such as paralysis or speech loss. More than 700,000 Americans suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year and more than 150,000 die. The most common strokes result from a blood clot blocking an artery supplying blood to the brain, starving brain cells of oxygen.
The best treatment is giving patients the drug TPA to break up the clot and open the artery. A large federal study in 1995 showed that people fared better when given the drug within three hours of the start of a stroke.
LOS ANGELES: Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an important new study suggests.
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