Thrombectomy for Patients With Large Infarct Core in Practice: Where Should the Pendulum Swing?

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (T.M.L.-M.).
² Neurointerventional Neurosurgery, The Valley Hospital and Neurosurgeons of NJ, New York University, Ridgewood (D.A.).
³ Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark (C.Z.S.).

Editorial

Thabele M Leslie-Mazwi et al. Stroke. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;52(10):3118-3120.

doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.034754. Epub 2021 Sep 2.

¹ Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (T.M.L.-M.).
² Neurointerventional Neurosurgery, The Valley Hospital and Neurosurgeons of NJ, New York University, Ridgewood (D.A.).
³ Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark (C.Z.S.).

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Keywords: goal; hemorrhage; medicine; reperfusion injury; thrombectomy.

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