Lukas Meyer, Christian Paul Stracke, Noël Jungi, Marta Wallocha, Gabriel Broocks, Peter B Sporns, Christian Maegerlein, Franziska Dorn, Hanna Zimmermann, Weis Naziri, Nuran Abdullayev, Christoph Kabbasch, Daniel Behme, Ala Jamous, Volker Maus, Sebastian Fischer, Markus Möhlenbruch, Charlotte Sabine Weyland, Sönke Langner, Dan Meila, Milena Miszczuk, Eberhard Siebert, Stephan Lowens, Lars Udo Krause, Leonard L L Yeo, Benjamin Yong-Qiang Tan, Gopinathan Anil, Benjamin Gory, Jorge Galván, Miguel Schüller Arteaga, Pedro Navia, Eytan Raz, Maksim Shapiro, Fabian Arnberg, Kamil Zelenák, Mario Martinez-Galdamez, Urs Fischer, Andreas Kastrup, Christian Roth, Panagiotis Papanagiotou, André Kemmling, Jan Gralla, Marios-Nikos Psychogios, Tommy Andersson, Rene Chapot, Jens Fiehler, Johannes Kaesmacher, Uta Hanning
IMPORTANCE: Clinical evidence of the potential treatment benefit of mechanical thrombectomy for posterior circulation distal, medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) is sparse. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency as well as the clinical and safety outcomes of mechanical thrombectomy for isolated posterior circulation DMVO stroke and to compare them with the outcomes of standard medical treatment with or without intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in daily clinical practice...
April 1, 2021: JAMA Neurology