Impact of retrievable stents on acute ischemic stroke treatment.

  • Caspar Brekenfeld
  • G Schroth
  • P Mordasini
  • U Fischer
  • M-L Mono
  • A Weck
  • M Arnold
  • M El-Koussy
  • J Gralla

Abstract

Retrievable stents combine the high recanalization rate of stents and the capability of removing the thrombus offered by mechanical thrombectomy devices. We hypothesized that retrievable stents shorten time to recanalization in the multimodal approach for endovascular stroke treatment.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number7
ISSN0195-6108
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21566010