Stroke patients experience long-term benefits after thrombectomy – study

Patients with severe strokes had better one-year outcomes after thrombectomy than with medical management alone, follow-up data suggest. The analysis involved patients with ischaemic stroke and large-core infarcts, meaning a significant amount of brain tissue had already been damaged. Sameer A. Ansari, professor and chief of interventional neuroradiology in the Department of Radiology and a [...]