Revascularization Therapies for Ischemic Stroke and Association With Risk of Epilepsy: A Danish Nationwide Register-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between stroke revascularization therapies and poststroke epilepsy is only sparsely investigated, and results are conflicting. The aim of this study is to investigate whether stroke revascularization therapies are associated with different risks of poststroke epilepsy.

Methods and results

We conducted a nationwide, register-based, propensity score-matched cohort study. We identified 40 816 patients admitted with a first ischemic stroke and no prior history of epilepsy in Denmark between January 1, 2011, and December 16, 2018. Of these, 6541 were treated with thrombolysis, 379 with thrombectomy, and 1005 with both thrombolysis and thrombectomy. The 3 treatment groups were each matched 1:1 to patients with stroke not treated with revascularization. E

SUBMITTER: Ebbesen MQB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11964050 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature