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Comparative Study
. 2024 Dec;34(4):761-769.
doi: 10.1007/s00062-024-01415-1. Epub 2024 Apr 30.

Outcomes with General Anesthesia Compared to Conscious Sedation for Endovascular Treatment of Medium Vessel Occlusions: Results of an International Multicentric Study

Răzvan Alexandru Radu  1   2 Vincent Costalat  3 Michele Romoli  4 Basel Musmar  5 James E Siegler  6 Sherief Ghozy  7 Jane Khalife  6 Hamza Salim  5 Hamza Shaikh  6 Nimer Adeeb  5 Hugo H Cuellar-Saenz  5 Ajith J Thomas  6 Ramanathan Kadirvel  7 Mohamad Abdalkader  8 Piers Klein  8 Thanh N Nguyen  8 Jeremy J Heit  9 Robert W Regenhardt  10 Joshua D Bernstock  10   11 Aman B Patel  10 James D Rabinov  10 Christopher J Stapleton  10 Nicole M Cancelliere  12 Thomas R Marotta  12 Vitor Mendes Pereira  12 Kareem El Naamani  13 Abdelaziz Amllay  13 Stavropoula I Tjoumakaris  13 Pascal Jabbour  13 Lukas Meyer  14 Jens Fiehler  14 Tobias D Faizy  14   15 Helena Guerreiro  14 Anne Dusart  16 Flavio Bellante  16 Géraud Forestier  17 Aymeric Rouchaud  17 Charbel Mounayer  17 Anna Luisa Kühn  18 Ajit S Puri  18 Christian Dyzmann  19 Peter T Kan  20 Marco Colasurdo  20   21 Gaultier Marnat  22 Jérôme Berge  22 Xavier Barreau  22 Igor Sibon  23 Simona Nedelcu  24 Nils Henninger  24   25   26 Takahiro Ota  27 Shogo Dofuku  27 Leonard L L Yeo  28 Benjamin Yq Tan  28   29 Anil Gopinathan  28   30 Juan Carlos Martinez-Gutierrez  31 Sergio Salazar-Marioni  31 Sunil Sheth  31 Leonardo Renieri  32 Carolina Capirossi  32 Ashkan Mowla  33 Lina M Chervak  34 Achala Vagal  34 Priyank Khandelwal  35 Arundhati Biswas  36 Frédéric Clarençon  37   30 Mahmoud Elhorany  37   38   30 Kevin Premat  37   30 Iacopo Valente  39 Alessandro Pedicelli  39 Andrea M Alexandre  39 João Pedro Filipe  40 Ricardo Varela  41 Miguel Quintero-Consuegra  42 Nestor R Gonzalez  42 Markus A Ymd  43 Jessica Jesser  43 Charlotte Weyland  43 Adrien Ter Schiphorst  44 Vivek Yedavalli  45 Pablo Harker  46 Yasmin Aziz  46 Benjamin Gory  47   48 Christian Paul Stracke  15 Constantin Hecker  49 Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer  49 Christoph J Griessenauer  49 Cheng-Yang Hsieh  50 David S Liebeskind  51 Illario Tancredi  52 Robert Fahed  52 Boris Lubicz  53 Muhammed Amir Essibayi  54 Amanda Baker  54 David Altschul  54 Luca Scarcia  55 Erwah Kalsoum  55 Adam A Dmytriw  10   12 Adrien Guenego  53 MAD-MT Consortium
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Comparative Study

Outcomes with General Anesthesia Compared to Conscious Sedation for Endovascular Treatment of Medium Vessel Occlusions: Results of an International Multicentric Study

Răzvan Alexandru Radu et al. Clin Neuroradiol. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Background: Optimal anesthetic strategy for the endovascular treatment of stroke is still under debate. Despite scarce data concerning anesthetic management for medium and distal vessel occlusions (MeVOs) some centers empirically support a general anesthesia (GA) strategy in these patients.

Methods: We conducted an international retrospective study of MeVO cases. A propensity score matching algorithm was used to mitigate potential differences across patients undergoing GA and conscious sedation (CS). Comparisons in clinical and safety outcomes were performed between the two study groups GA and CS. The favourable outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) 0-2 at 90 days. Safety outcomes were 90-days mortality and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH). Predictors of a favourable outcome and sICH were evaluated with backward logistic regression.

Results: After propensity score matching 668 patients were included in the CS and 264 patients in the GA group. In the matched cohort, either strategy CS or GA resulted in similar rates of good functional outcomes (50.1% vs. 48.4%), and successful recanalization (89.4% vs. 90.2%). The GA group had higher rates of 90-day mortality (22.6% vs. 16.5%, p < 0.041) and sICH (4.2% vs. 0.9%, p = 0.001) compared to the CS group. Backward logistic regression did not identify GA vs CS as a predictor of good functional outcome (OR for GA vs CS = 0.95 (0.67-1.35)), but GA remained a significant predictor of sICH (OR = 5.32, 95% CI 1.92-14.72).

Conclusion: Anaesthetic strategy in MeVOs does not influence favorable outcomes or final successful recanalization rates, however, GA may be associated with an increased risk of sICH and mortality.

Keywords: Anesthesia; MeVO; Outcomes research; Reperfusion; Stroke; Thrombectomy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest R.W. Regenhardt serves on a DSMB for a trial sponsored by Rapid Medical, serves as site PI for studies sponsored by Penumbra and Microvention, and receives stroke research grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, and Heitman Stroke Foundation. A. Guenego reports consultancy for Rapid Medical and Phenox, not directly related to the present work. F. Clarençon reports conflicts of interest with Medtronic, Balt Extrusion (consultant), ClinSearch (core lab), Penumbra, Stryker (payment for reading) and Artedrone (Board) ; all not directly related to the present work. N. Henninger received support from NINDS NS131756, during the conduct of the study. D.S. Liebeskind is consultant as Imaging Core Lab to Cerenovus, Genentech, Medtronic, Stryker, Rapid Medical. T.N. Nguyen reports advisory board with Idorsia. L.L.L. Yeo reports Advisory work for AstraZeneca, Substantial support from NMRC Singapore and is a medical advisor for See-mode, Cortiro and Sunbird Bio, with equity in Ceroflo. All unrelated to the present work. C.J. Griessenauer reports a proctoring agreement with Medtronic and research funding by Penumbra. G. Marnat reports conflicts of interest with Microvention Europe, Stryker Neurovascular, Balt (consulting), Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and Phenox (paid lectures), all not directly related to the present work. I. Sibon reports conflict of interest with Medtronic, Sanofi, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Novartis, Novo-nordisk, BMS-Pfizer (Board and paid lectures), all not directly related to the present work. V. Yedavalli is a consultant for RAPID (Ischemaview, Menlo Park, CA). A. Vagal is a consultant for Viz AI. She is also PI of the Imaging core lab for the ENDOLOW study funded by Cerenovus (monies go to the institution). A. Gopinathan reports conflicts of interest with Microvention, Stryker Neurovascular, Medtronic, BD, and Penumbra (paid lectures, workshops, and proctoring), all not directly related to the present work. R. A. Radu, V. Costalat, M. Romoli, B. Musmar, J.E. Siegler, S. Ghozy, J. Khalife, H. Salim, H. Shaikh, N. Adeeb, H.H. Cuellar-Saenz, A.J. Thomas, R. Kadirvel, M. Abdalkader, P. Klein, J.J. Heit, J.D. Bernstock, A.B. Patel, J.D. Rabinov, C.J. Stapleton, N.M. Cancelliere, T.R. Marotta, V. Mendes Pereira, K. El Naamani, A. Amllay, S.I. Tjoumakaris, P. Jabbour, L. Meyer, J. Fiehler, T.D. Faizy, H. Guerreiro, A. Dusart, F. Bellante, G. Forestier, A. Rouchaud, C. Mounayer, A.L. Kühn, A.S. Puri, C. Dyzmann, P.T. Kan, M. Colasurdo, J. Berge, X. Barreau, S. Nedelcu, T. Ota, S. Dofuku, B.Y. Tan, J.C. Martinez-Gutierrez, S. Salazar-Marioni, S. Sheth, L. Renieri, C. Capirossi, A. Mowla, L.M. Chervak, P. Khandelwal, A. Biswas, M. Elhorany, K. Premat, I. Valente, A. Pedicelli, A.M. Alexandre, J.P. Filipe, R. Varela, M. Quintero-Consuegra, N.R. Gonzalez, M.A. YMD, J. Jesser, C. Weyland, A. ter Schiphorst, P. Harker, Y. Aziz, B. Gory, C. Paul Stracke, C. Hecker, M. Killer-Oberpfalzer, C.-Y. Hsieh, I. Tancredi, R. Fahed, B. Lubicz, M.A. Essibayi, A. Baker, D. Altschul, L. Scarcia, E. Kalsoum and A.A. Dmytriw for the MAD-MT Consortium declare that they have no competing interests.

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