Mechanical thrombectomy and the future of acute stroke treatment
AA Dmytriw, Y Zhang, VM Pereira - European Journal of Radiology, 2019 - Elsevier
After being staggered by numerous negative trials in 2013, the interventional stroke
community saw four years of vindication for mechanical thrombectomy showing efficacy and
safety, even beyond a hopeful 6–8 hour window out to 24 h. A landmark set of five trials in
2015 provided a foundation upon which years of incremental follow-ups, meta-analyses and
new breakthroughs would be built. With optimized devices for thrombectomy and image
analysis, the neurointerventional community has turned to workflow and systemization in this …
community saw four years of vindication for mechanical thrombectomy showing efficacy and
safety, even beyond a hopeful 6–8 hour window out to 24 h. A landmark set of five trials in
2015 provided a foundation upon which years of incremental follow-ups, meta-analyses and
new breakthroughs would be built. With optimized devices for thrombectomy and image
analysis, the neurointerventional community has turned to workflow and systemization in this …