Tag: NEJM

ENRICH trial results published in full in New England Journal of...

The entirety of the results from the ENRICH trial evaluating the early surgical removal of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) have been published in the New England...

Craniotomy and decompressive craniectomy achieve similar outcomes in acute subdural haematoma

The two prevailing techniques used during surgical treatments of traumatic acute subdural haematomas (SDHs)—craniotomy and decompressive craniectomy—have demonstrated broadly similar efficacy outcomes in a...

SELECT2 results support thrombectomy use in stroke patients with large infarct-core...

An international clinical study has found that patients experiencing a ‘large’ stroke—characterised by a greater infarct-core volume on imaging—had a dramatically better recovery after...
baoche trial

BAOCHE trial results supporting thrombectomy for basilar artery stroke published in...

Results from the BAOCHE randomised controlled trial (RCT), which found that the addition of thrombectomy to standard medical care within 6–24 hours in basilar...
severe stroke thrombectomy

Mechanical thrombectomy shown to restore more function than medication alone following...

A new study from Japan has become the first randomised controlled trial (RCT) to demonstrate the effectiveness of endovascular mechanical thrombectomy procedures in patients...
basics evt trial

Benefits of EVT for basilar artery occlusion “cannot be excluded” following...

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) involving 300 patients found that functional outcomes among basilar artery occlusion stroke patients “did not differ significantly” with endovascular...