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When treating an ischemic stroke—where a clot is blocking the flow of oxygen to the brain—every minute counts. The more quickly doctors can remove the clot and restore blood flow, the more ...

Based on these numbers, the researchers estimated that 5-year cumulative risks of recurrent events were 17.4% for ischemic stroke and 22.1% for any stroke overall and 31.2% and 37.5%, respectively, ...

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. For tough, fibrin-rich clots, success rates drop to as low ...