Turning the tables on deadly stroke complications

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An experimental stroke treatment could save four out of five patients suffering a particularly lethal stroke complication resulting in bleeding in the watery spaces between brain tissue.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins found that administering a clot-busting drug called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in these spaces in the brain can cut the death rate from 80 percent to 20 percent.

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