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Article: NIH Sponsored Trial Shows Ultrasound Microcatheter Improves Blood Flow in Ischemic Stroke Patients.
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- October 20, 2005
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VENICE, Italy -- At the VIII Congress of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN) meeting today, Dr. Thomas Tomsick of the University of Cincinnati presented data that further supports the concept that ultrasound energy can accelerate the action of a thrombolytic (clot dissolving) drug. Using a novel microcatheter that is threaded via a leg artery into a stroke patient's brain, a small ultrasonic transmitter at the catheter tip bathes the offending blood clot with low energy ultrasound while simultaneously infusing clot dissolving drug. "The ultrasound," says Dr. Tomsick, "is thought to cause the clot to become more permeable to the ...