Tissa Wijeratne

Safety and Efficacy of Tenecteplase and Alteplase in Patients With Tandem Lesion Stroke: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the EXTEND-IA TNK Trials.

Vignan Yogendrakumar, Leonid Churilov, Peter J Mitchell, Timothy J Kleinig, Nawaf Yassi, Vincent Thijs, Teddy Wu, Darshan Shah, Peter Bailey, Helen M Dewey, Philip Mc Choi, Alice Ma, Tissa Wijeratne, Carlos Garcia-Esperon, Geoffrey Cloud, Ronil V Chandra, Dennis John Cordato, Bernard Yan DMedSc, Gagan Sharma, Patricia M Desmond, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  Neurology

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The safety and efficacy of tenecteplase in patients with tandem lesion stroke is unknown. We performed a..

Tenecteplase Treatment and Thrombus Characteristics Associated With Early Reperfusion: An EXTEND-IA TNK Trials Analysis

Vignan Yogendrakumar, Leonid Churilov, Prodipta Guha, James Beharry, Peter J Mitchell, Timothy J Kleinig, Nawaf Yassi, Vincent Thijs, Teddy Y Wu, Helen Brown, Helen M Dewey, Tissa Wijeratne, Bernard Yan, Gagan Sharma, Patricia M Desmond, Mark W Parsons, Geoffrey A Donnan, Stephen M Davis, Bruce CV Campbell

Journal article  |  2023  |  STROKE

BACKGROUND: Intracranial occlusion site, contrast permeability, and clot burden are thrombus characteristics that influence altepl..

Door-in-door-out times for patients with large vessel occlusion ischaemic stroke being transferred for endovascular thrombectomy: a Victorian state-wide study

Joseph Zhi Wen Wong, Helen M Dewey, Bruce C Campbell, Peter J Mitchell, Mark Parsons, Thanh Phan, Ronil Chandra, Henry Ma, Alexandra Warwick, Mark Brooks, Vincent Thijs, Essie Low, Tissa Wijeratne, Sharon Jones, Ben Clissold, Mei Yan Ngun, Douglas Crompton, Rumes Kanna Sriamareswaran, Jayantha Rupasinghe, Karen Smith, et al.

Journal article  |  2023  |  BMJ NEUROLOGY OPEN

BACKGROUND: Time to reperfusion is an important predictor of outcome in ischaemic stroke from large vessel occlusion (LVO). For pa..

Door-in-door-out and transfer times for endovascular thrombectomy - a Victorian statewide study

Joseph Wong, Helen Dewey, Bruce Campbell, Peter Mitchell, Mark Parsons, Thanh Phan, Ronil Chandra, Henry Ma, Alexandra Warwick, Mark Brooks, Vincent Thijs, Essie Low, Tissa Wijeratne, Sharon Jones, Ben Clissold, Mei Yan Ngun, Douglas Crompton, Rumes Kanna Sriamareswaran, Jayantha Rupasinghe, Karen Smith, et al.

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE

Cadence Feedback and Video-Based Engagement Improves Motivation and Performance during Pedalling in Stroke Patients

Mukesh Soni, Tissa Wijeratne, David Ackland

Journal article  |  2022  |  APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL

Video and music as a dissociative attention stimulus during exercise is known to distract from the discomfort of physical exertion..

Systematic Review of Existing Stroke Guidelines: Case for a Change

Tissa Wijeratne, Carmela Sales, Chanith Wijeratne, Leila Karimi, Mihajlo Jakovljevic

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

METHODS: We systematically searched for guideline recommendation on the day-to-day use of peripheral inflammatory markers such as ..

Comparison of tenecteplase with alteplase for the early treatment of ischaemic stroke in the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit (TASTE-A): a phase 2, randomised, open-label trial

Andrew Bivard, Henry Zhao, Leonid Churilov, Bruce C Campbell, Skye Coote, Nawaf Yassi, Bernard Yan, Michael Valente, Angelos Sharobeam, Anna H Balabanski, Angela Dos Santos, Jo Lyn Ng, Vignan Yogendrakumar, Felix Ng, Francesca Langenberg, Damien Easton, Alex Warwick, Elizabeth Mackey, Amy MacDonald, Gagan Sharma, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  LANCET NEUROLOGY

BACKGROUND: Mobile stroke units (MSUs) equipped with a CT scanner reduce time to thrombolytic treatment and improve patient outcom..

Tenecteplase versus Alteplase for Stroke Thrombolysis Evaluation Trial in the Ambulance (Mobile Stroke Unit-TASTE-A): protocol for a prospective randomised, open-label, blinded endpoint, phase II superiority trial of tenecteplase versus alteplase for ischaemic stroke patients presenting within 4.5 hours of symptom onset to the mobile stroke unit

Andrew Bivard, Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, Bruce Campbell, Leonid Churilov, Nawaf Yassi, Bernard Yan, Michael Valente, Angelos Sharobeam, Anna Balabanski, Angela Dos Santos, Felix Ng, Francesca Langenberg, Michael Stephenson, Karen Smith, Steve Bernard, Vincent Thijs, Geoffrey Cloud, Philip Choi, Henry Ma, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  BMJ OPEN

INTRODUCTION: Mobile stroke units (MSUs) equipped with a CT scanner are increasingly being used to assess and treat stroke patient..

Safety and Efficacy of Tenecteplase in Older Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion A Pooled Analysis of the EXTEND-IA TNK Trials

Vignan Yogendrakumar, Leonid Churilov, Peter J Mitchell, Timothy J Kleinig, Nawaf Yassi, Vincent Thijs, Teddy Y Wu, Darshan G Shah, Felix C Ng, Helen M Dewey, Tissa Wijeratne, Bernard Yan, Patricia M Desmond, Mark W Parsons, Geoffrey Alan Donnan, Stephen M Davis, Bruce C Campbell

Journal article  |  2022  |  NEUROLOGY

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Detailed study of tenecteplase (TNK) in patients older than 80 years is limited. The objective of our s..

Thunderclap headache syndrome presenting to the emergency department: an international multicentre observational cohort study

Tom Roberts, Daniel E Horner, Kevin Chu, Martin Than, Anne-Maree Kelly, Sharon Klim, Frances Kinnear, Gerben Keijzers, Mehmet Akif Karamercan, Tissa Wijeratne, Sinan Kamona, Win Sen Kuan, Colin A Graham, Richard Body, Said Laribi

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: Most headache presentations to emergency departments (ED) have benign causes; however, approximately 10% will have ser..