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If a 67-year-old woman with acute ischemic stroke came to your ED two hours after onset of symptoms, you most likely would consider this patient as a candidate for treatment with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV t-PA). But what if the patient were 91 years old?

Don't withhold thrombolytics due to age