Ischemic Stroke: Prying Open the Treatment Window

At this year's International Stroke Conference in San Antonio, some exciting device-based therapies and approaches were discusssed--including advanced imaging, multimodal therapy and stent-like thrombectomy devices--that may offer improved outcomes for patients that suffer an acute ischemic stroke.

by Anne Staylor and Mary Thompson

Since the mid 1990s, expanding the therapeutic window and speeding time to blood flow restoration (recanalization) have been the driving...

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