thrombolytic

Is this fellow going to refuse thrombolytic drugs or chemotherapy, as he tells us plebeians to do?

A CT scan is almost always carried out to rule this out, before administering thrombolytic drugs or aspirin, as these drugs can significantly worsen existing bleeding.

They have all had low platelet count which is very unusual with blood clots and complicates treatment immensely because the standard thrombolytic treatment is then not safe to use.

We certainly don't carry thrombolytic agents.

For me, it was the persistence of the researcher -- well into his ninth decade -- that caught my eye, rather than the somewhat arcane details of the thrombolytic therapy that he's been pursuing.

Whilst angioplasty or clot retrieval is the optimal treatment (have not seen evidence for clot retrieval for strokes in longer timeframes but will be interested to jump into some research tomorrow) in countries where there are enormous distances between tertiary referral centres (ie Australia) thrombolytic agents are still strongly used.