Anemia Predicts Poor Clinical Outcome in Mechanical Thrombectomy Patients with Fair or Good Collateral Circulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Anemia predicts poor clinical outcome of ischemic stroke in the general stroke population. We studied whether this applies to those treated with mechanical thrombectomy for proximal anterior circulation occlusion in the setting of differing collateral circulation.

Methods

We collected the data of 347 consecutive anterior circulation stroke patients who underwent mechanical thrombectomy after multimodal CT imaging in a single tertiary stroke care center. Patients with occlusion of the internal carotid artery and/or the first segment of the middle cerebral artery were included. We recorded baseline clinical, laboratory, procedural, and imaging variables, and the technical, imaging, and clinical outcomes. Differences between anemic and nonanemic patients

SUBMITTER: Pienimaki JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670357 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature