Tailored Vessel-Catheter Diameter Ratio in a Direct Aspiration First-Pass Technique: Is It a Matter of Caliber?

E Pampana S Fabiano Gianluca De Rubeis Luca Bertaccini A Stasolla A Vallone A Pingi Marilena Mangiardi Sabrina Anticoli Claudio Gasperini E Cotroneo

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2021)

The aspiration catheter should be selected according to culprit vessel diameter. The optimal vessel-catheter ratio cutoffs were ≤1.51 for modified TICI ≥ 2b with an odds ratio of 9.2 and a relative risk of 3.2.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
optic nerve