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Editorial
. 2022 Jun;7(3):179-181.
doi: 10.1136/svn-2021-001465. Epub 2022 Feb 1.

To bridge or not to bridge: summary of the new evidence in endovascular stroke treatment

Anna Podlasek  1   2 , Permesh Singh Dhillon  2   3 , Waleed Butt  3   4 , Iris Q Grunwald  5 , Timothy J England  6   7
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Editorial

To bridge or not to bridge: summary of the new evidence in endovascular stroke treatment

Anna Podlasek et al. Stroke Vasc Neurol. 2022 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: cerebral infarction; clinical trial; stroke; thrombectomy; thrombolysis.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Forest plots of (A) good functional outcome, modified Rankin score 0–2, and (B) successful reperfusion (thrombolysis in cerebral infarction (TICI) 2b–3) according to the clot location.
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