A recent review article, published in the Lancet, provided a contemporary update of endovascular therapy for stroke patients. The article authors, researchers from Boston University Chobanian & ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During endovascular therapy for large vessel occlusion stroke, more than three attempts at clot retrieval was ...

Across hospitals and health systems, stroke care sits at the intersection of several pressures leaders know well: rising acuity, uneven access to specialty care, workforce constraints and growing ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2025 — Removing a clot blocking a medium- or small-sized artery in the brain mechanically is a safe treatment for a common type of stroke; however, it did not lessen disability ...

Operators considering multiple clot retrieval attempts in mechanical thrombectomy may need to take a step back, a retrospective study suggested. With each additional attempt, there was a greater ...

Current evidence on the safety and efficacy of mechanical clot retrieval for treating acute ischaemic stroke is adequate to support the use of this procedure provided that standard arrangements are in ...

Joondalup Health Campus has been selected as one of just 15 health services nationwide to receive a major funding boost, helping its stroke service ...

Our paper is a contemporary update of the role of endovascular therapy (clot retrieval, rescue stenting) in the treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke as well as patient selection criteria." ...

For patients with acute ischemic stroke who undergo thrombectomy, an increase in the number of attempts to retrieve the clot is associated with a higher risk for an unfavorable outcome, a new study ...

A first-line thrombectomy approach that combines contact aspiration and stent retrieval techniques does not significantly improve the reperfusion rate compared to stent retrieval alone in patients ...

(Boston)—Stroke related to large vessel occlusion (LVO) is a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Endovascular therapy (minimally invasive procedures like catheterization done inside the ...

This section describes efficacy outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. The efficacy outcomes described below include death ...