Omar Marei, Anna Podlasek, Emma Soo, Waleed Butt, Benjamin Gory, Thanh N Nguyen, Jason P Appleton, Sébastien Richard, Hal Rice, Laetitia de Villiers, Vinicius Carraro do Nascimento, Luis Domitrovic, Norman McConachie, Robert Lenthall, Sujit Nair, Luqman Malik, Jasmin Panesar, Kailash Krishnan, Pervinder Bhogal, Robert A Dineen, Timothy J England, Bruce C V Campbell, Permesh Singh Dhillon
BACKGROUND: Half of patients who achieve successful recanalization following endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke experience poor functional outcome. We aim to investigate whether the use of adjunctive intra-arterial antithrombotic therapy (AAT) during EVT is safe and efficacious compared with standard therapy (ST) of EVT with or without prior intravenous thrombolysis. METHODS: Electronic databases were searched (PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library) from 2010 until October 2023...
January 19, 2024: Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery