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Later Use of Clot-Buster After Stroke Possible: Study
Date:9/14/2008

tPA can be safely given beyond the current 3-hour limit, international researchers find

SUNDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- European researchers who showed that the clot-dissolving drug tPA could safely be used within three hours after a stroke now say the limit can be extended to four-and-a-half hours.

"We now have a three-hour limit mandated by authorities," said Dr. Nils Wahlgren, a neurology professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and leader of an international group reporting Sunday in the online version of The Lancet. "Our data indicate that it is safe to extend that from three hours to four-and-a-half hours. The risk of hemorrhagic complications is not significantly different from the earlier time limit."

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), also known as the drug alteplase, is the approved treatment for the most common kind of stroke, in which a blood clot blocks a brain artery. The three-hour post-stroke time limit has been set because of fears that use of the clot-dissolving drug beyond that period might cause dangerous bleeding or other complications.

The new report is the latest from a study requested by European authorities after doubts arose about the safety of tPA in stroke treatment, which was approved in 1996 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It was approved in 2002 in Europe.

The study compared the outcomes of 664 people who were given tPA between three and four-and-a-half hours after a stroke against almost 12,000 who received the drug within three hours of an attack.

The study found a death rate of 12.7 percent in the following three months for the three-hour group and 12.2 percent for those getting tPA later. In the early group, 58 percent achieved the ability of independent action, compared to 56.3 percent in the later-administration group.

"We recorded no significant differences between the 3- to 4.5-hour cohort and the within 3-hour coho
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