Stroke
A new scoring system is showing promise at selecting which stroke patients with large vessel occlusion are best suited to endovascular therapy, reports a paper published online October 15, 2014 ahead of print in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery.
A novel metric known as early loss of immediate reperfusion (ELOIR) could provide guidance on the best duration of embedding time during mechanical thrombectomy, according to a study published online October 8, 2015, in Stroke.…
Endovascular therapy using retrievable stents provides better outcomes than standard therapy for the treatment of acute stroke, according to a meta-analysis presented on October 13, 2015, at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting.…
The use of proximal and distal protection devices for carotid artery stenting (CAS) results in equivalent outcomes, according to a meta-analysis presented on Tuesday, October 13, at the 2015 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco, CA.…
Compared with the standard unsheathing technique, a push and fluff approach to deployment results in better reperfusion outcomes with a closed-cell stent retriever in acute ischemic stroke, according to research published online September 15, 2015 in Stroke. In addition, the technique does not increase patients’ hemorrhagic risk.…
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