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Evaluating patients for thrombectomy [PDF]
Brain Circulation, 2018 The treatment of acute ischemic stroke patients with a proximal large vessel occlusion (LVO) in the anterior circulation has seen tremendous advances initially with the demonstration of the substantial benefit of thrombectomy within 6-h of stroke onset ...
Marc Fisher, Yunyun Xiong
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Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2022 Large vessel occlusion stroke contributes to disability and mortality out of proportion to its incidence. Over time it was noted that intravenous thrombolysis alone was not sufficient for this stroke type. Slowly, endovascular approach and mechanical clot retrieval have come out to be the biggest advances in ...
Chintan Prajapati +3 more
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Aspiration thrombectomy in concert with stent thrombectomy [PDF]
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, 2013 In the SWIFT and TREVO 2 trials, aspiration thrombectomy was not able to be performed. Outside these studies, in post-market application, the interventionist can use aspiration thrombectomy in addition to stent device thrombectomy. This technique is described in detail in the present report.
Travis M, Dumont +4 more
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Obesity and Mechanical Thrombectomy [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Background Obesity has been shown to have a positive mortality benefit in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, dialysis, those with rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and various wasting diseases. Studies for this mortality benefit in ischemic stroke patients are conflicting, and it has not been well studied
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Adjuvant Tirofiban Injection Through Deployed Solitaire Stent As a Rescue Technique After failed Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke [PDF]
Neurointervention, 2015 PurposeWe present our experiences of intra-arterial tirofiban injection through a deployed Solitaire stent as a rescue therapy after failed mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke.Materials and MethodsData on 18 patients treated ...
Jung Hwa Seo +3 more
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BMC Neurology, 2021 Background The American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association and the Chinese Stroke Association guidelines are recommending intravenous alteplase intervention before endovascular thrombectomy if patients are eligible to do so but the benefits ...
Ruodong Han +4 more
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Anterior cerebral artery thrombectomy: A case series and technical description
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021 Background: Distal medium vessel occlusions account for 25–40% of ischemic stroke. The utility of thrombectomy in these vessel territories is less frequently studied.
Joseph S. Hudson, Bradley A. Gross
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Mechanical Thrombectomy in Stroke [PDF]
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2015 The introduction of neurological stroke units and of thrombolysis with the intravenous (IV) administration of recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) have markedly improved the treatment of stroke. Five randomized trials of catheter-based interventional treatment of stroke with special stents were published in 2015.Recently published ...
Jens, Fiehler, Christian, Gerloff
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Endovascular Treatment of Anterior Circulation Large Vessel Occlusion in the Elderly
Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 Endovascular treatment of anterior circulation large vessel occlusion in the elderly population presents special challenges and opportunities. In this review, we discuss the published literature regarding thrombectomy in elderly patients and also discuss
Mahesh V. Jayaraman +7 more
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Low Levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Increase the Risk of Post-Thrombectomy Delayed Parenchymal Hematoma [PDF]
Neurointervention, 2023 Purpose Low levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) have been suggested to increase the risk of hemorrhagic transformation (HT) following acute ischemic stroke.
Seoiyoung Ahn +7 more
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