Endovascular Treatment of Very Elderly Patients Aged ≥90 With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Endovascular Treatment of Very Elderly Patients Aged ≥90 With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Background Patients aged ≥90 were excluded or under‐represented in past thrombectomy trials; thus, uncertainty remains whether treatment benefits can be expected regardless of age. This study investigates outcome and safety of thrombectomy in nonagenarians to improve decision making in a real‐world...

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Main Authors: Lukas Meyer, Maria Alexandrou, Fabian Flottmann, Milani Deb‐Chatterji, Nuran Abdullayev, Volker Maus, Maria Politi, Kathleen Bernkopf, Christian Roth, Andreas Kastrup, Uta Hanning, Caspar Brekenfeld, Götz Thomalla, Christian Gerloff, Anastasios Mpotsaris, Panagiotis Papanagiotou, Jens Fiehler, Hannes Leischner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
elderly
ischemic stroke
nonagenarians
thrombectomy
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.014447

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