First-Line Treatment of Symptomatic Subocclusive Large-Vessel Stroke: Results of a Nationwide StrokeNet Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limited evidence is available for the treatment of acute symptomatic sub-occlusive lesions in ischemic stroke. We sought to identify current treatment patterns of stroke teams at academic health centers.

Methods

We conducted an email survey of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) StrokeNet regional coordinating centers (RCCs). Each RCC principal investigator (PI) was asked to nominate a local stroke interventionalist, or neurologist if the RCC PI was an interventionalist, most aligned with the typical practice pattern of the RCC's lead hospital, to receive a survey. The survey consisted of a clinical vignette and displayed a sub-occlusive lesion in the left middle cerebral artery on CT angiogram followed by subsequent scenarios, revising only one historical, cl

SUBMITTER: Aziz YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11566191 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature