Endovascular therapy for acute stroke was perhaps redeemed this week, as results from the Multicenter Randomized Clinical trial of Endovascular treatment for Acute ischemic stroke in the Netherlands (MR CLEAN) were published online and are slated to appear in the January 1 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The study shows that the addition of stent thrombectomy clot removal to pharmaceutical treatment for patients suffering an acute ischemic stroke (AIS), stent thrombectomy provided a significant clinical benefit when compared to pharmaceutical treatment alone. Read More
