Diogo C Haussen, Francis Turjman, Michel Piotin, Julien Labreuche, Henrik Steglich-Arnholm, Markus Holtmannspötter, Christian Taschner, Sebastian Eiden, Raul G Nogueira, Panagiotis Papanagiotou, Maria Boutchakova, Adnan H Siddiqui, Bertrand Lapergue, Franziska Dorn, Christophe Cognard, Monika Killer, Salvatore Mangiafico, Marc Ribo, Marios N Psychogios, Alejandro M Spiotta, Marc-Antoine Labeyrie, Mikael Mazighi, Alessandra Biondi, Sébastien Richard, Jonathan A Grossberg, René Anxionnat, Serge Bracard, Benjamin Gory
Background: We aim to evaluate the speed and rates of reperfusion in tandem large vessel occlusion acute stroke patients undergoing upfront cervical lesion treatment (Neck-First: angioplasty and/or stent before thrombectomy) as compared to direct intracranial occlusion therapy (Head-First) in a large international multicenter cohort. Methods: The Thrombectomy In TANdem Lesions (TITAN) collaboration pooled individual data of prospectively collected thrombectomy international databases for all consecutive anterior circulation tandem patients who underwent emergent thrombectomy...
January 2020: Interventional Neurology