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In this study contributes 49 elderly (>80 years) patients who appeared to be safely treated with tPA for stroke. They did not seem to bleed more, but it was a small study, and found that only NIHSS was an independent predictor of outcome (versus the non >80 patients). Likely they did not have enough patients to detect an effect of age as other larger studies have demonstrated that older people do worse with all strokes (but still seem to get a benefit from tPA).