Safety and Efficacy of Tenecteplase and Alteplase in Patients With Tandem Lesion Stroke: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the EXTEND-IA TNK Trials.
Vignan YogendrakumarLeonid ChurilovPeter J MitchellTimothy J KleinigNawaf YassiVincent N ThijsTeddy WuDarshan ShahPeter BaileyHelen M DeweyPhilip Mc ChoiAlice MaTissa WijeratneCarlos Garcia EsperonGeoffrey C CloudRonil V ChandraDennis John CordatoBernard Yan DMedScGagan SharmaPatricia M DesmondMark W ParsonsGeoffrey Alan DonnanStephen M DavisBruce C V CampbellPublished in: Neurology (2023)
This study provides Class III evidence that tenecteplase is associated with similar rates of intracranial reperfusion, functional outcome, mortality, and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage compared with alteplase, in patients with acute stroke due to tandem lesions. However, the confidence intervals do not rule out clinically important differences.