Emedinews: Dr K K Answers- In stroke in which patients the risk of bleeding is more after thrombolysis?

According to a study published in Journal of the American Heart Association 2011 pretreatment blood glucose levels predicts the risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage after clot dissolving therapy.

Emedinews: Dr K K Answers- Are stroke patients treated with IV clot dissolving therapy at risk with IV contrast?

Stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis did not have an increased incidence of cerebral hemorrhage when exposed to iodinated contrast media.  About 4% to 6% of patients developed post-thrombolysis brain hemorrhage, regardless of whether they received intravenous iodinated contrast. This has been reported by Niall J.J. MacDougall, MRCP, of the University of Glasgow, in Glasgow, Scotland, and colleagues in the Journal of American Heart Association. (2011)