Ultrasound-Assisted Thrombolysis for Stroke Therapy

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:00 p.m. in ETC 2.132 Professor Christy K. Holland Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Cincinnati http://www.eng.uc.edu/dept_biomed Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the United States. Thrombolytics, or clot-busters, such as recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) have advanced the treatment of ischemic…