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When do you consider patients with acute stroke with large vessel occlusion with very low ASPECTS scores (less than 3) for endovascular thrombectomy?

In light of meta-analysis data showing favorable outcomes in this normally excluded subset of patients (Katsanos et al., PMID 37775318).
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Neurology · HCA Houston Healthcare
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Last year was an exciting year for interventional stroke care, as several trials (RESCUE-Japan LIMIT, SELECT-2, ANGEL-ASPECT, TENSION, TESLA, and LASTE) demonstrated statistically significant or positive-signal benefits in endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for large vessel occlusion (LVO) and large-co...

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