title: Catheter-based interventions for acute ischaemic stroke.
abstract: Catheter-based interventions for acute ischaemic stroke currently include clot removal (usually from the medial cerebral artery) with modern stent-retrievers and in one of five patients (who have simultaneous or stand-alone internal carotid occlusion) also extracranial carotid intervention. Several recently published randomized trials clearly demonstrated superiority of catheter-based interventions (with or without bridging thrombolysis) over best medical therapy alone. The healthcare systems should adopt the new strategies for acute stroke treatment (including fast track to interventional lab) to offer the benefits to all suitable acute stroke patients.
authors.affiliation: Cardiocenter, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Srobarova 50, 100 34 Prague 10, Czech Republic petr.widimsky@fnkv.cz.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Widimsky
authors.affiliation: Gates Vascular Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.
authors.forename: L Nelson
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Hopkins
mesh_terms: D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases; D002545:Brain Ischemia; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D020521:Stroke; D017131:Thrombectomy
keywords: Acute stroke; Catheter intervention; Neurologic outcome; Stent-retriever; Thrombectomy