Outcomes of different anesthesia techniques in nonagenarians treated with mechanical thrombectomy for anterior circulation large vessel occlusion: An inverse probability weighting analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is a lack of evidence for the optimal type of anesthesia technique in patients ⩾ 90 years with acute ischemic stroke undergoing mechanical thrombectomy (MT) as this subgroup of patients was often excluded or under-represented in previous trials. We aimed to compare outcomes between general anesthesia (GA) and non-GA techniques in patients ⩾ 90 years with large vessel occlusion (LVO) undergoing MT.

Patients and methods

Our study included patients ⩾ 90 years with anterior circulation LVO, NIHSS ⩾ 6, ASPECTS ⩾ 5 consecutively treated with MT within 6 h after stroke onset in three thrombectomy capable centers between January 1st, 2016 and March 30th, 2023. Inverse probability weighting (IPW) was used to reduce bias by indication of the anesthesia type on study

SUBMITTER: Levee V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11556564 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature