Efficacy and safety of sonothombolysis versus non-sonothombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Zhouqing Chen; Tao Xue; Huachen Huang; Jiayi Xu; Sandhya Shankar; Hao Yu; Zhong Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210516

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Efficacy and safety of sonothombolysis versus non-sonothombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Zhouqing Chen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhouqing Chen, Tao Xue

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery & Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Tao Xue ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhouqing Chen, Tao Xue

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery & Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Huachen Huang,

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, First affiliate Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China
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Jiayi Xu,

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Sandhya Shankar,

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Hao Yu ,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: wangzhong761@163.com (ZW); ichsah@163.com (HY)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The First People’s Hospital of Nantong city, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China
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Zhong Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: wangzhong761@163.com (ZW); ichsah@163.com (HY)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery & Brain and Nerve Research Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-0845

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Efficacy and safety of sonothombolysis versus non-sonothombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Zhouqing Chen,
Tao Xue,
Huachen Huang,
Jiayi Xu,
Sandhya Shankar,
Hao Yu,
Zhong Wang

Published: January 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210516

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