Clot-Busting Treatment Improves Bleeding Stroke Outcomes

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More than 80 percent of the patients were alive one month after treatment. Ten percent of these patients had also recovered enough to return to their jobs, the researchers reported.

"We think that this treatment is the most promising story in brain hemorrhage in many years," Hanley said. "We've taken a condition that used to have an extremely high rate of death and disability and turned it around."

A definitive trial to test this treatment in 500 patients is now being planned by the researchers.

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about how to prevent strokes.