Sex differences in clot, vessel and tissue characteristics in patients with a large vessel occlusion treated with endovascular thrombectomy.
Anne van der MeijGhislaine HolswilderMarie Louise E BernsenHendrikus Ja van OsJeannette HofmeijerFianne Hm SpaanderJasper M MartensIdo R van den WijngaardHester F LingsmaPraneeta R KonduriCharles Blm MajoieWouter J SchonewilleDiederik Wj DippelNyika D KruytPaul J NederkoornMarianne Aa van WalderveenMarieke Jh WermerPublished in: European stroke journal (2024)
On baseline imaging of this Dutch Registry, men and women with LVO mainly differ in vessel characteristics such as atherosclerotic burden, extracranial vessel tortuosity, and collateral status. These sex differences do not result in different reperfusion rates and are, therefore, not likely to explain the worse functional outcome in women after EVT.