Trial investigators Masatoshi Koga and Manabu Inoue discuss results from THAWS (NCT02002325), an investigator-initiated Japanese multicentre randomised controlled clinical trial designed to clarify the efficacy and safety of MRI-based intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase for patients with acute wake-up ischaemic stroke and those having acute ischaemic stroke with unknown time of symptom onset.
Content produced in Milan, Italy and shared with kind authorisation of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC 2019).Â