Diagnostic accuracy of emergency CT angiography for presumed tandem internal carotid artery occlusion before acute endovascular therapy.
Marcelo RochaWilliam T DelfyettVikas AgarwalAmin AghaebrahimAshutosh JadhavTudor G JovinPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2017)
Emergency single phase CTA is highly sensitive but has reduced specificity to identify extracranial ICA occlusion in patients with intracranial ICA occlusion, which may confound planning for acute endovascular stroke therapy and cause over exclusion of patients with isolated ICA terminus occlusion from clinical trials.
Keyphrases
- internal carotid artery
- aortic dissection
- liver failure
- clinical trial
- emergency department
- public health
- respiratory failure
- middle cerebral artery
- healthcare
- drug induced
- randomized controlled trial
- mesenchymal stem cells
- mass spectrometry
- high resolution
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- living cells
- brain injury
- cerebral ischemia
- open label
- phase iii