TPA

American  

abbreviation

1. tissue plasminogen activator.

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Example Sentences

Mr O'Connell said the TPA backed the Labour government's review of quangos, and urged more focus on scrapping unnecessary functions and bringing delivery of significant services back under political control.

From BBC

And when stroke patients are taken to an emergency room, the first treatment doctors often consider is a clot-dissolving medicine called tPA, which can make brain bleeding worse.

From Los Angeles Times

In addition, Schrag said, some patients given the placebo had to wait longer for the standard stroke treatment of the drug tPA or surgery to dissolve the blood clot.

From Los Angeles Times

A table in the published final trial report seems to indicate that some of the placebo patients even got tPA outside of the American Stroke Association–approved window of no more than 4.5 hours after acute ischemic stroke.

From Science Magazine

Among other evidence cited, it reduced the volume of brain tissue damaged by the stroke and stopped some bleeding caused by tPA.

From Science Magazine