Following the success of recent endovascular trials, endovascular therapy has emerged as
an exciting addition to the arsenal of clinical management of patients with acute ischemic …

Background and Purpose—There is currently controversy on the ideal anesthesia strategy
during mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke. We performed a systematic …

Background and Purpose—Retrospective studies have found that patients receiving general
anesthesia for endovascular treatment in acute ischemic stroke have worse neurological …

Objective To summarize the current literature regarding the initial hospital management of
patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) secondary to emergent large vessel occlusion …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The adverse effects of general anesthesia in stroke
thrombectomy have been attributed to intraprocedural hypotension, yet optimal …

Background and Purpose—Rapid initiation of endovascular stroke treatment is associated
with better clinical outcome. The effect of specific improvements is not well known. We …

Background Many authors have reported that general anesthesia (GA), as a generic and
uncharacterized therapy, is contraindicated for patients undergoing endovascular …

Five trials that investigated the efficacy of modern endovascular therapies for stroke—MR
CLEAN, ESCAPE, SWIFT PRIME, EXTEND IA and REVASCAT—have been published …

Background Despite the proven benefit of neurothrombectomy, intracranial hemorrhage
(ICH) remains the most serious procedural complication. The aim of this analysis was to …

Abstract The 2018 American Heart Association stroke care guidelines consider
endovascular thrombectomy to be the standard of care for patients who have acute ischemic …