Adnan Mujanovic, Tomas Dobrocky, Waltraud Pfeilschifter, Luca Remonda, Jildaz Caroff, Daniel Behme, David J Seiffge, Carlo W Cereda, Georg Kägi, Joe Leyon, Eike I Piechowiak, Vincent Costalat, Judith Wagner, Emmanuel Chabert, Thomas R Meinel, Olav Jansen, Angelika Alonso, Christian Loehr, David S Liebeskind, Jan Gralla, Urs Fischer, Johannes Kaesmacher
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The value of intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in eligible tandem lesion patients undergoing endovascular treatment (EVT) is unknown. We investigated treatment effect heterogeneity of EVT + IVT versus EVT-only in tandem lesion patients. Additional analyses were performed for patients undergoing emergent internal carotid artery (ICA) stenting. METHODS: SWIFT DIRECT randomized IVT-eligible patients to either EVT + IVT or EVT-only...
February 26, 2024: European Journal of Neurology