Rapilysin has been compared with other medicines used in thrombolysis: streptokinase (6,000 patients) or alteplase (about 15,000 patients).

Rapilysin has been compared with other medicines used to dissolve blood clots: streptokinase in 6,000 patients and alteplase in about 15,000 patients.

Number and percentage of women who experience an acute ischemic stroke during pregnancy who are administered intravenous alteplase.

patients are eligible for medical thrombolysis (intravenous alteplase) within 4.5-hours of known or presumed symptom onset [Evidence Level B];

Taking the clot-busting drug alteplase within 90 minutes of a stroke “gives patients more than double the chance of full recovery”, said the Daily Mail.