Trial of Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Ischemic Strokes.
Amrou SarrajAmeer E HassanMichael G AbrahamSantiago Ortega-GutierrezScott E KasnerM Shazam HussainMichael ChenSpiros BlackburnClark W SittonLeonid ChurilovSophia SundararajanYin C HuNabeel A HerialPascal JabbourDaniel GibsonAdam N WallaceJuan F ArenillasJenny P TsaiRonald F BudzikWilliam J HicksOsman KozakBernard YanDennis J CordatoNathan W ManningMark W ParsonsRicardo A HanelAmin N AghaebrahimTeddy Y WuPere Cardona-PortelaNatalia Pérez de la OssaJoanna D SchaafsmaJordi BlascoNavdeep SanghaSteven WarachChirag D GandhiTimothy John KleinigDaniel SahleinLucas ElijovichWondwossen TekleEdgar A SamaniegoLaith MaaliM Ammar AbdulrazzakMarios N PsychogiosAshfaq ShuaibDeep Kiritbhai PujaraFaris ShakerHannah T JohnsGagan SharmaVignan YogendrakumarFelix C NgMohammad H RahbarChunyan CaiPhilip LavoriScott HamiltonThanh N NguyenJohanna T FifiStephen DavisLawrence WechslerVitor M PereiraMaarten G LansbergMichael D HillJames Charles GrottaMarc RiboBruce C V CampbellGregory W Albersnull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2023)
Among patients with large ischemic strokes, endovascular thrombectomy resulted in better functional outcomes than medical care but was associated with vascular complications. Cerebral hemorrhages were infrequent in both groups. (Funded by Stryker Neurovascular; SELECT2 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03876457.).