Excellent rates of recanalization and good functional outcome after stent-based thrombectomy for acute middle cerebral artery occlusion. Is it time for a paradigm shift?

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1219-1223

  Cohen, José E ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^b   Ramirez De Noriega, Fernando ^a   Gomori, John M ^a   Itshayek, Eyal ^a   Eichel, Roni ^a   Leker, Ronen R ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Middle cerebral artery occlusion; Stent; Stroke; Thrombectomy; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GUIDE WIRE; GUIDING CATHETER; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MESENTERY DISEASE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS THROMBECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SELF EXPANDING STENT; SEPSIS; TIME TO TREATMENT;

MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; STENT; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883134104     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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