Recommendations on angiographic revascularization grading standards for acute ischemic stroke: A consensus statement

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2650-2663

  Zaidat, Osama O ^a   Yoo, Albert J ^b   Khatri, Pooja ^c   Tomsick, Thomas A ^d   Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^e   Saver, Jeffrey L ^f   Marks, Michael P ^g   Prabhakaran, Shyam ^h   Kallmes, David F ⁱ   Fitzsimmons, Brian Fred M ^a   Mocco, J ^j   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^k   Barnwell, Stanley L ^l   Jovin, Tudor G ^m   Linfante, Italo ⁿ   Siddiqui, Adnan H ^o   Alexander, Michael J ^p   Hirsch, Joshua A ^b   Wintermark, Max ^q   Albers, Gregory ^g   Woo, Henry H ^r   Heck, Donald V ^s   Lev, Michael ^b   Aviv, Richard ^t   Hacke, Werner ^u   Warach, Steven ^v   Broderick, Joseph ^c   Derdeyn, Colin P ^w   Furlan, Anthony ^x   Nogueira, Raul G ^y   Yavagal, Dileep R ^z   Goyal, Mayank ^aa   Demchuk, Andrew M ^aa   Bendszus, Martin ^u   Liebeskind, David S ^f   more..

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f University of Los Angeles   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^j VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^l OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ Baptist Vascular Institute   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^p Sinai Medical Center   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^r STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^u UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^v Medical University   (United States)

^w WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^y EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

AOL; Embolectomy; Endovascular therapy; Grading; IA therapy; Recanalization; Revascularization; Score; Scoring; Stent retrievers; Stroke; Thrombectomy; TICI; TIMI

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE LESION SCALE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHIC REVASCULARIZATION GRADING; CEREBRAL COLLATERAL FLOW GRADING; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONSENSUS REVASCULARIZATION SCALE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ICA OCCLUSION NOMENCLATURE; MODIFIED TREATMENT IN CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA SCALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RECANALIZATION SCALE; REPERFUSION; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOLYSIS CEREBRAL INFARCTION SCALE; THROMBOLYSIS MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION SCALE;

AOL; EMBOLECTOMY; ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY; GRADING; IA THERAPY; RECANALIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SCORE; SCORING; STENT-RETRIEVERS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TICI; TIMI;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884503071     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.001972     Document Type: Article

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