PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - D. Arkadir
AU  - R. Eichel
AU  - J.M. Gomori
AU  - T. Ben Hur
AU  - J.E. Cohen
AU  - R.R. Leker
TI  - Multimodal Reperfusion Therapy for Large Hemispheric Infarcts in Octogenarians: Is Good Outcome a Realistic Goal?
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A2916
DP  - 2012 Feb 02
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2012/02/02/ajnr.A2916.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2012/02/02/ajnr.A2916.full
AB  - BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MMRT may be beneficial in a subset of patients with large hemispheric stroke who cannot be treated with systemic thrombolysis. Because most previous studies only included relatively young patients, the outcome of very old patients given MMRT remains unknown. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Consecutive patients with large hemispheric stroke treated with MMRT and admitted to intensive care were included. We compared neurologic and functional outcomes between patients younger and older than 80 years. RESULTS: We included 14 patients older than 80 years and compared them with 66 patients who were younger than 80. Cerebrovascular risk factor profile, admission NIHSS scores, stroke etiology and pathogenesis, and procedure-related variables did not differ between the groups except for a higher prevalence of smoking in younger patients. Excellent target vessel recanalization (Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction score of 3) and good outcome at 90 days (modified Rankin Score ≤2) were more common in younger patients (45% versus 14%, P = .047, and 41% versus 0%, P = .008, respectively). In contrast, mortality rates were higher in octogenarians (43% versus 17%, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: In this study, very old patients had higher chances of mortality and a very low probability of achieving functional independence even after MMRT. Further prospective studies are needed to examine the futility of MMRT in the very old. Abbreviations GP IIb/IIIaglycoprotein IIb/IIIaIAintra-arterialMMRTmultimodal reperfusion therapyTIMIThrombolysis in Myocardial InfarctionTOASTTrial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke