Tag: ASTER

Combining contact aspiration with stent retriever techniques elicits no superiority

The first randomised controlled trial (RCT) to directly compare the efficacy of the combined use of contact aspiration and stent retriever against a stent...

Outcomes for contact aspiration and stent retrievers shown to be similar...

The post-hoc analysis of the contact aspiration versus stent retriever for successful revascularisation (ASTER) trial showed that the clot burden score on admission was...

ASTER final data confirm no difference between ADAPT and stent retriever...

The final results of the ASTER randomised controlled trial have confirmed that there was no statistically significant difference between ADAPT (a direct aspiration first...