Junya Aoki, Kentaro Suzuki, Yuki Sakamoto, Yuji Matsumaru, Masataka Takeuchi, Masafumi Morimoto, Ryuzaburo Kanazawa, Yohei Takayama, Yuki Kamiya, Keigo Shigeta, Seiji Okubo, Mikito Hayakawa, Norihiro Ishii, Yorio Koguchi, Tomoji Takigawa, Masato Inoue, Hiromichi Naito, Takahiro Ota, Teruyuki Hirano, Noriyuki Kato, Toshihiro Ueda, Yasuyuki Iguchi, Kazunori Akaji, Wataro Tsuruta, Kazunori Miki, Shigeru Fujimoto, Tetsuhiro Higashida, Mitsuhiro Iwasaki, Takuya Kanamaru, Tomonari Saito, Takehiro Katano, Akihito Kutsuna, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Toshiaki Otsuka, Kazumi Kimura
BACKGROUND: To investigate whether ultra-early recombinant tissue-plasminogen activator (rt-PA) administration can improve patient outcomes on mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO). METHODS: Participants comprised rt-PA-eligible 204 patients with internal carotid artery or middle cerebral artery occlusion in the SKIP trial, who were randomly assigned to receive mechanical thrombectomy alone or combined intravenous thrombolysis (rt-PA: alteplase at 0...
August 21, 2023: Journal of the Neurological Sciences