Tag: MeVO stroke

“No significant difference” between aspiration and stent-retriever thrombectomy in medium vessel...

When utilised as a first-line technique for medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) stroke, aspiration and stent-retriever thrombectomy have demonstrated “no significant difference” in imaging-related or...

Is thrombectomy set to become the standard of care for medium...

With multiple large clinical trials currently underway to assess thrombectomy treatments in patients with medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) stroke, Johanna Ospel (Calgary, Canada) takes...

Thrombectomy appears comparable to medical management in treating ACA occlusion stroke

Mechanical thrombectomy appears to be a safe and technically feasible treatment option for ischaemic strokes caused by primary isolated anterior cerebral artery (ACA) occlusions...

DISTAL trial will elucidate non-dominant M2, M3 and PCA occlusions but...

A recent update on the DISTAL randomised controlled trial (RCT)—which was delivered at the Barts Research and Advanced Interventional Neuroradiology (BRAIN) conference (5–8 December...
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DISTAL: A landmark trial looking to elucidate endovascular treatment outcomes in...

In December 2021, University Hospital Basel (Basel, Switzerland) enrolled the first patient worldwide in the DISTAL study—a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the...