Patient-relevant deficits dictate endovascular thrombectomy decision-making in patients with low NIHSS scores with medium-vessel occlusion stroke

R McDonough, P Cimflová, N Kashani… - American Journal …, 2021 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There is a paucity of evidence regarding the safety of
endovascular treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke due to primary medium …

Perceived limits of endovascular treatment for secondary medium-vessel-occlusion stroke

P Cimflová, R McDonough… - American Journal …, 2021 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Thrombus embolization during mechanical thrombectomy
occurs in up to 9% of cases, making secondary medium vessel occlusions of particular …

Factors influencing thrombectomy decision making for primary medium vessel occlusion stroke

P Cimflova, M Kappelhof, N Singh, N Kashani… - Journal of …, 2022 - jnis.bmj.com
Background We aimed to explore the preference of stroke physicians to treat patients with
primary medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) stroke with immediate endovascular treatment …

Endovascular treatment decision-making in acute ischemic stroke patients with large vessel occlusion and low National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale: insights from …

JM Ospel, B Kim, JH Heo, S Yoshimura, N Kashani… - Neuroradiology, 2020 - Springer
Purpose Many stroke patients with large vessel occlusion present with a low National
Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). There is currently no level 1A recommendation for …

Misjudgment of pre-stroke functional status contradicts beneficial outcomes after endovascular therapy for large vessel occlusion

A Prakapenia, C Gruener, S Winzer, J Barlinn… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Endovascular therapy (EVT) trials enrolled ischemic stroke patients with good pre-stroke
functional status. However, this information needed for rapid decision-making is commonly …

Outcomes after endovascular mechanical thrombectomy for low compared to high National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS): A multicenter study

IJ Abecassis, E Almallouhi, R Chalhoub… - Clinical neurology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective The role of endovascular mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients presenting
with “minor” stroke is uncertain. We aimed to compare outcomes after MT for ischemic stroke …

Endovascular versus medical therapy for large-vessel anterior occlusive stroke presenting with mild symptoms

DN Wolman, DG Marcellus… - … Journal of Stroke, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Acute ischemic stroke patients with a large-vessel occlusion but mild symptoms
(NIHSS≤ 6) pose a treatment dilemma between medical management and endovascular …

Thrombectomy versus medical management for large vessel occlusion strokes with minimal symptoms: an analysis from STOPStroke and GESTOR cohorts

DC Haussen, FO Lima, M Bouslama… - Journal of …, 2018 - jnis.bmj.com
Introduction It remains unclear whether patients presenting with large vessel occlusion
strokes and mild symptoms benefit from thrombectomy. Objective To compare outcomes of …

Endovascular treatment for acute stroke patients with a pre-stroke disability: an international survey

S Salwi, JA Niec, AE Hassan, CJ Lindsell… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: It is unclear what factors clinicians consider when deciding about endovascular
thrombectomy (EVT) in acute ischemic stroke patients with a pre-existing disability. We …

Clinical uncertainty in large vessel occlusion ischemic stroke: does automated perfusion imaging make a difference? An intra-rater and inter-rater agreement study

JDB Diestro, R Fahed, AT Omar, C Hawkes… - Journal of …, 2024 - jnis.bmj.com
Background Limited research exists regarding the impact of neuroimaging on endovascular
thrombectomy (EVT) decisions for late-window cases of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke …