Patient-Relevant Deficits Dictate Endovascular Thrombectomy Decision-Making in Patients with Low NIHSS Scores with Medium-Vessel Occlusion Stroke

^aFrom the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology (R.M., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
^bDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging (R.M., N.K., M.K., A.S., M.G.), Foothills Medical Center, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
^cDepartment of Medical Imaging (P.C., M.G.), St. Anne's University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
^dDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences (P.C., N.S.), Foothills Medical Center, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
^eDivision of Neuroradiology (J.M.O.), Clinic of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
^fDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (M.K.), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
^gDepartment of Neurological Sciences (M.C.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
^hDepartment of Neurosurgery (N.S.), Kobe City Medical Centre General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Please address correspondence to Mayank Goyal, MD, Departments of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 2T9, Canada; e-mail: mgoyal{at}ucalgary.ca; @MayankG0; @PCimflova; @rosevmcd