It has now been 25 years since prourokinase was in the spotlight as a potential treatment for acute ischaemic stroke. In 1999, the PROACT-II randomised controlled trial compared intra-arterial ...
In the not-so-distant past, doctors treated strokes in an after-the-fact way. A stroke did its damage, and then—if the patient survived—a rehabilitation team stepped in to address the stroke’s effects ...