Thrombus histology suggests cardioembolic cause in cryptogenic stroke

T Boeckh-Behrens, JF Kleine, C Zimmer, F Neff… - Stroke, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Ischemic stroke of undetermined cause is a major health issue
because of its high frequency and clinical relevance. Histopathologic analysis of human …

Ischemic stroke: what does the histological composition tell us about the origin of the thrombus?

PB Sporns, U Hanning, W Schwindt, A Velasco… - Stroke, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—The introduction of stent retrievers allows for a complete
extraction and histological analysis of human thrombi. Ischemic stroke is a major health …

Histologic features of acute thrombi retrieved from stroke patients during mechanical reperfusion therapy

SH Ahn, R Hong, IS Choo, JH Heo… - … Journal of Stroke, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background The histologic features of thrombus may differ according to the stroke subtypes.
However, in acute reperfusion therapy, fibrin-specific thrombolytics are used based on the …

Association between clot composition and stroke origin in mechanical thrombectomy patients: analysis of the Stroke Thromboembolism Registry of Imaging and …

W Brinjikji, RG Nogueira, P Kvamme… - Journal of …, 2021 - jnis.bmj.com
Background We retrospectively evaluated the composition of retrieved clots from ischemic
stroke patients to study the association between histological composition and stroke etiology …

Histological stroke clot analysis after thrombectomy: technical aspects and recommendations

S Staessens, S Fitzgerald… - … Journal of Stroke, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The recent advent of endovascular procedures has created the unique opportunity to collect
and analyze thrombi removed from cerebral arteries, instigating a novel subfield in stroke …

Platelet-rich emboli in cerebral large vessel occlusion are associated with a large artery atherosclerosis source

S Fitzgerald, D Dai, S Wang, A Douglas, R Kadirvel… - Stroke, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Nearly 30% of large vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke clots
are from an unknown source. We assessed histological clot composition in a series of …

Insights from thrombi retrieved in stroke due to large vessel occlusion

M Bacigaluppi, A Semerano… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The recent advances of endovascular procedures to treat stroke due to large cerebral vessel
occlusion have made it possible to analyze the retrieved thrombus material. Analysis of …

Thrombus composition in acute ischemic stroke: a histopathological study of thrombus extracted by endovascular retrieval

N Simons, P Mitchell, R Dowling, M Gonzales… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background and purpose The composition of occlusive thrombus in acute ischemic stroke
may affect treatment success. Neuroimaging characteristics may correlate with thrombus …

The impact of histological clot composition in embolic stroke

T Boeckh-Behrens, M Schubert, A Förschler… - Clinical …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Thrombus composition has been suggested to have a decisive impact on the
outcome of patients treated by mechanical thrombectomy because of embolic stroke. The …

Ischemic stroke: histological thrombus composition and pre-interventional CT attenuation are associated with intervention time and rate of secondary embolism

PB Sporns, U Hanning, W Schwindt, A Velasco… - Cerebrovascular …, 2017 - karger.com
Abstract Background and Purpose: The introduction of stent retrievers has made the
complete extraction and histological analysis of human thrombi possible. A number of large …