Impact of atrial fibrillation on the treatment effect of bridging thrombolysis in ischemic stroke patients undergoing endovascular thrombectomy: a multicenter international cohort study.
Jing Hong LooAloysius Sheng-Ting LeowMingxue JingChing-Hui SiaBernard Pl ChanRaymond Cs SeetHock-Luen TeohLukas MeyerFiehler JensPanagiotis PapanagiotouAndreas KastrupAnastasios MpotsarisVolker MausFurkan YapiciDavide SimonatoJoseph D GabrieliGiacomo CesterPervinder BhogalOliver SpoonerChristos NikolaAbhishek JoshiTsong-Hai LeeJiale WuYimin ChenShuiquan YangVijay Kumar SharmaBenjamin Yq TanLeonard Leong-Litt YeoPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2023)
The presence of AF did not modify the treatment effect of bridging IVT. Further individual patient data meta-analysis of randomized trials may shed light on the comparative efficacy of bridging IVT in AF versus non-AF LVO strokes.