Histological evaluation of acute ischemic stroke thrombi may indicate the occurrence of vessel wall injury during mechanical thrombectomy.
Oana Madalina MereutaMehdi AbbasiSeán FitzgeraldDaying DaiRamanathan D KadirvelRicardo A HanelAlbert J YooMohammed A AlmekhlafiKennith F LaytonJosser E Delgado AlmandozPeter KvammeVitor Mendes PereiraBabak S JahromiRaul G NogueiraMatthew J GounisBiraj PatelAmin AghaebrahimEric SauvageauParita BhuvaJazba SoomroAndrew M DemchukIke C ThackerYasha KayanAlexander CopelanPouya NazariDonald Robert CantrellDiogo C HaussenAlhamza R R Al-BayatiMahmoud MohammadenLeonardo PisaniGabriel Martins RodriguesAjit S PuriJohn EntwistleAlexander MevesJorge Arturo LarcoLuis SavastanoHarry J CloftDavid F KallmesKaren M DoyleBrinjikji WPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2021)
Histological markers of VWI were present in 12% of AIS thrombi, suggesting that VWI might be related to MT. VWI was associated with soft thrombus consistency, higher number of passes and poorer revascularization outcome. There was no significant correlation between VWI and MT device.