In the early '80s, clot-busting drugs weren't generally available. My patient was unstable, but I did my best and he hung in there.

在80年代早期，抗凝结的药物还不普遍，病人的病情很不稳定，我为治疗竭尽了力，最后把他移到了危重症病房。

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He founded Pulse Therapeutics to develop the discovery, in which tiny magnetic particles would be mixed with a clot-busting drug, and a magnet would be used to get more of the drug to its target.

他成立了Pulse Therapeutics公司来开发这一发现。他用细小的磁铁颗粒与溶解血块的药物混合，而磁铁可以将更多的药物带入目标位置。

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If they catch it early enough, they can administer the clot-busting drug tPA to keep even more brain cells from dying—but tPA is not appropriate for all types of stroke.

如果他们能够在早期发现中风征兆，那么可以通过给病人服用抗栓塞药物（TPA）以避免更多的脑细胞死亡，但这种药物不是对所有种类的中风都有效。

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You only have about three hours to get to the emergency room, go through the admission process and get evaluated before the doctors can figure out if you are a candidate for the clot busting drug that could save you from devastating disability.

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This would buy the brain time until clot-busting drugs could be given in hospital.

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In some instances giving patients the clot-busting drugs could make damage to the brain worse.

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