Reply from the Authors: Hemorrhagic Infarct

Reply from the Authors: We appreciate Dr. Chamorro's comments on the relationship between early anticoagulant treatment and hemorrhagic transformation of an ischemic infarct. One aim of our study [1] was to evaluate whether and to what extent the policy of anticoagulating selected patients within the first few hours of ischemic stroke, with reference to prespecified target values of APTT or PT, results in an increased occurrence of HT. The results demonstrate that patients given IV or …