TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan AU - Eman Elbanhawyn , AU - Hanan Amer , AU - Khaled Younes Mohamed , TI - Relationship between plasma matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and hemorrhagic transformation in acute ischemic stroke / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan , KW - Acute ischemic stroke KW - Hemorrhagic transformation KW - Matrix metalloproteinase-9 N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsychiatry; Issued also as CD N2 - Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) activity has been associated with hemorrhagic transformation (HT) in experimental models of cerebral ischemia. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between MMP-9 concentrations in blood within 24 hours of stroke onset and subsequent HT of cerebral infarction. We studied 35 patients with an acute ischemic stroke in comparison with 35 subjects UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -