Contemporary Trends in Utilization of Rescue Intracranial Stenting During Mechanical Thrombectomy in Patients With Stroke in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rescue intracranial stenting (RICS) is increasingly recognized as a potentially effective rescue strategy following failed mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for large vessel occlusion due to intracranial atherosclerosis, but population-level data on contemporary patterns of RICS utilization in MT are lacking. The aim of this study is to describe trends in the utilization of RICS in MT in the United States in the last decade.

Methods

We conducted a serial cross-sectional study using all primary acute ischemic stroke (AIS) admissions with MT in the 2010-2020 National Inpatient Sample. RICS admissions were defined as those with procedural codes for "percutaneous insertion of intracranial vascular stent" on same day as MT. We used joinpoint regression to evaluate trends in

SUBMITTER: Otite FO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12697582 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature