Removing a clot blocking a medium- or small-sized artery in the brain mechanically is a safe treatment for a common type of stroke; however, it did not lessen disability more than best medical ...

To examine the effectiveness of blood-clot removal across a wide range of stroke patients seen in routine daily care (outside of a clinical trial), the Embotrap eXtraction & Clot EvaLuation ...

According to new research, about one third of people who had a large vessel (severe) ischemic stroke, treated with mechanical clot removal, resumed work three months after stroke treatment ...

Study results In the BEST-II trial, researchers led by Mistry enrolled 120 patients (with an average age of 70 years, 57% female) who had an acute ischemic stroke and successful endovascular ...

A research review found that clot-busting therapy and mechanical clot removal to treat ischemic stroke in people with a pre-existing disability or dementia was as safe and effective as in adults ...

Yet current clot-removal tools succeed on the first try only about 50 percent of the time. In 15 percent of cases, they fail completely.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association (ASA) have issued updated guidelines expanding the time frame for giving state-of-the-art treatments in the wake of new ...

In 2019, the American Heart Association stroke treatment guidelines were updated to recommend mechanical clot removal for select stroke patients to improve the likelihood of functional recovery.

DALLAS, April 21, 2022 — According to new research, about one third of people who had a large vessel (severe) ischemic stroke, treated with mechanical clot removal, resumed work three months ...

Therma Bright Reports on Progress of Inretio's Novel Clot Removal Device for Stroke Treatment PRESS RELEASE Newsfile Feb. 23, 2023, 07:30 AM ...

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and ... sucking it out like a vacuum machine or through mechanical thrombectomy stent removal to pull out the clot. The problem with both cases is that the ...

Mayank Goyal, MD, PhD, from the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine in Alberta, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned patients with acute ischemic stroke due to medium vessel ...