Promising new procedure offers hope for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.

摘要

"The basic idea here is that a minimally invasive approach using a small burr hole, about the size of a quarter, with a single catheter placement into the hematoma, may be less damaging to the surface brain tissue as when you open up a 6 X 5-cm flap during a cra-niotomy," said Hanley.In Hanley's study, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 60 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage at 12 hospitals in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany underwent the procedure and received 0.3 mg or 0.1 mgofrt PA every 8 hours for up to 3 days.