Clinical Trial: The Impact of Age on Short-term Post-thrombectomy Outcomes in Patients Aged 70 or Beyond With Acute Ischemic Stroke

U.S., May 2 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06953427) titled 'The Impact of Age on Short-term Post-thrombectomy Outcomes in Patients Aged 70 or Beyond With Acute Ischemic Stroke' on April 16.

Brief Summary: A recent Cochrane systematic review of 18 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing endovascular intervention-either mechanical thrombectomy or intra-arterial thrombolysis combined with medical treatment-to conservative medical treatment alone provided high-certainty evidence that endovascular intervention increases the likelihood of achieving a favorable functional outcome (modified Rankin Scale [mRS] score of 0-2) by 50% in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).1 More recently, a cr...