Thrombectomy for Stroke in the Public Health Care System of Brazil.
Sheila O MartinsFrancisco Mont'AlverneLetícia C RebelloDaniel G AbudGisele S SilvaFabrício O LimaBruno S M ParenteGuilherme S NakiriMário B FariaMichel E FruditJoão J F de CarvalhoEduardo WaihrichJosé A FiorotFabrício B CardosoRaquel C T HidalgoViviane F ZétolaFernanda M CarvalhoAna C de SouzaFrancisco A DiasDiego BandeiraMaramélia Miranda AlvesMário B WagnerLeonardo Augusto CarboneraJamary Oliveira-FilhoDaniel C BezerraDavid S LiebeskindJoseph BroderickCarlos A MolinaJosé E Fogolin PassosJeffrey L SaverOctávio M Pontes-NetoRaul G Nogueiranull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2020)
In this randomized trial conducted in the public health care system of Brazil, endovascular treatment within 8 hours after the onset of stroke symptoms in conjunction with standard care resulted in better functional outcomes at 90 days than standard care alone. (Funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health; RESILIENT ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02216643.).