Aspiration Versus Stent‐Retriever as First‐Line Endovascular Therapy Technique for Primary Medium and Distal Intracranial Occlusions: A Propensity‐Score Matched Multicenter Analysis

• Published in: Stroke: vascular and interventional neurology Vol. 3; no. 6
• Main Authors: Siegler, James E., Shaikh, Hamza, Khalife, Jane, Oak, Solomon, Zhang, Linda, Abdalkader, Mohamad, Klein, Piers, Nguyen, Thanh N., Kass‐Hout, Tareq, Morsi, Rami Z., Heit, Jeremy J., Regenhardt, Robert W., Diestro, Jose Danilo Bengzon, Cancelliere, Nicole M., Ghozy, Sherief, Sweid, Ahmad, Naamani, Kareem El, Amllay, Abdelaziz, Meyer, Lukas, Dusart, Anne, Bellante, Flavio, Forestier, Géraud, Rouchaud, Aymeric, Saleme, Suzana, Mounayer, Charbel, Fiehler, Jens, Kühn, Anna Luisa, Puri, Ajit S., Dyzmann, Christian, Kan, Peter T., Colasurdo, Marco, Marnat, Gaultier, Berge, Jérôme, Barreau, Xavier, Sibon, Igor, Nedelcu, Simona, Henninger, Nils, Marotta, Thomas R., Das, Alvin S., Stapleton, Christopher J., Rabinov, James D., Ota, Takahiro, Dofuku, Shogo, Yeo, Leonard L.L., Tan, Benjamin Y.Q., Martinez‐Gutierrez, Juan Carlos, Salazar‐Marioni, Sergio, Sheth, Sunil A., Renieri, Leonardo, Capirossi, Carolina, Mowla, Ashkan, Tjoumakaris, Stavropoula I., Jabbour, Pascal, Khandelwal, Priyank, Biswas, Arundhati, Clarençon, Frédéric, Elhorany, Mahmoud, Premat, Kevin, Valente, Iacopo, Pedicelli, Alessandro, Filipe, João Pedro, Varela, Ricardo, Quintero‐Consuegra, Miguel, Gonzalez, Nestor R., Möhlenbruch, Markus A., Jesser, Jessica, Costalat, Vincent, Schiphorst, Adrien ter, Yedavalli, Vivek, Harker, Pablo, Chervak, Lina M., Aziz, Yasmin, Bullrich, Maria Bres, Sposato, Luciano, Gory, Benjamin, Hecker, Constantin, Killer‐Oberpfalzer, Monika, Griessenauer, Christoph J., Thomas, Ajith J., Hsieh, Cheng‐Yang, Liebeskind, David S., Radu, Răzvan Alexandru, Alexandre, Andrea M., Tancredi, Illario, Faizy, Tobias D., Fahed, Robert, Weyland, Charlotte, Patel, Aman B., Pereira, Vitor Mendes, Lubicz, Boris, Guenego, Adrien, Dmytriw, Adam A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Phoenix Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2023; Wiley
• Subjects: Clinical outcomes; outcomes research; Stroke; thrombectomy; Thrombolytic drugs

BackgroundFor acute proximal intracranial artery occlusions, contact aspiration may be more effective than stent‐retriever for first‐line reperfusion therapy. Due to the lack of data regarding medium vessel occlusion thrombectomy, we evaluated outcomes according to first‐line technique in a large, m...