Effect of incomplete reperfusion patterns on clinical outcome: insights from the ESCAPE-NA1 trial.
Petra CimflovaNishita SinghManon KappelhofJohanna Maria OspelArshia SehgalNima R KashaniMohammed A AlmekhlafiAndrew M DemchukJoerg BerrouschotFranziska DornMichael E KellyBrian H BuckThalia S FieldDariush DowlatshahiMichael TymianskiMichael D HillMayank GoyalPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2023)
IR was associated with worse clinical outcomes than near-complete/complete reperfusion. Two-thirds of our patients with IR had non-MT-accessible occlusion patterns which were associated with better clinical and imaging outcomes compared with those with MT-accessible occlusion patterns.