Saturday, December 21, 2019

Stroke Etiology Modifies the Effect of Endovascular Treatment in Acute Stroke

Wrong endpoint, stroke survivors care not one fucking bit about reperfusion. ARE YOU THAT FUCKING STUPID? 100% RECOVERY IS THE ONLY GOAL IN STROKE!    

Oops, I'm not playing by the polite rules of Dale Carnegie,  'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. 


Politeness will never solve anything in stroke.

 

Stroke Etiology Modifies the Effect of Endovascular Treatment in Acute Stroke

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Originally publishedhttps://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.119.028383Stroke. ;0:STROKEAHA.119.028383

Background and Purpose—

Stroke etiology drives thrombus composition. We thus hypothesized that endovascular treatment shows different efficacy in cardioembolic versus noncardioembolic large-vessel occlusions (LVOs).

Methods—

Procedural characteristics, grade of reperfusion, and functional outcome at discharge and 90 days were compared between patients with cardioembolic versus noncardioembolic LVO from the GSR-ET (German Stroke Registry–Endovascular Treatment; n=2589). To determine associations with functional outcome, adjusted odds ratios and 95% CIs were calculated using ordinal multivariable logistic regression models adjusting for potential baseline confounder variables.

Results—

Endovascular treatment of cardioembolic LVO had a higher rate of successful reperfusion (85.6% versus 81.0%; P=0.002) and a higher rate of complete reperfusion after a single thrombectomy pass (45.7% versus 38.1%; P<0.001) compared with noncardioembolic LVO. Cardioembolic LVO was associated with better functional outcome at discharge (adjusted odds ratio, 1.61 [95% CI, 1.37–1.88]) and 90 days (adjusted odds ratio, 1.29 [95% CI, 1.09–1.53]). In mediation analysis, reperfusion explained 47% of the effect of etiology on functional outcome at discharge.

Conclusions—

These results provide evidence for higher efficacy of endovascular treatment in cardioembolic LVO compared with noncardioembolic LVO.

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