Stephanie Kemp

TL;DR: Endovascular thrombectomy for ischemic stroke 6 to 16 hours after a patient was last known to be well plus standard medical therapy resulted in better functional outcomes than standard medical Therapy alone among patients with proximal middle‐cerebral‐artery or internal‐carotid‐arterY occlusion and a region of tissue that was ischeMIC but not yet infarcted.

TL;DR: For stroke patients treated 3 to 6 hours after onset, baseline MRI findings can identify subgroups that are likely to benefit from reperfusion therapies and can potentially identify sub groups that are unlikely to benefit or may be harmed.

TL;DR: Target mismatch patients who had early reperfusion after endovascular stroke treatment had more favourable clinical outcomes and a randomised controlled trial of endov vascular treatment for patients with the target mismatch profile is warranted.

TL;DR: Defining PWI lesions based on a stricter Tmax threshold than the standard >2 seconds delay appears to provide more a reliable estimate of the volume of the ischemic penumbra in stroke patients imaged between 3 and 6 hours after symptom onset.

TL;DR: Among patients with large vessel anterior circulation occlusion who have a favorable imaging profile on computed tomography perfusion or magnetic resonance imaging, endovascular therapy with a Food and Drug Administration 510 K-cleared mechanical thrombectomy device reduces the degree of disability three months post stroke.