Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Twelve-Month Clinical and Quality-of-Life Outcomes in the Interventional Management of Stroke III Trial.
Randomized trials have indicated a benefit for endovascular therapy in appropriately selected stroke patients at 3 months, but data regarding outcomes at 12 months are currently lacking. ⋯ URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00359424.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Acupuncture efficacy on ischemic stroke recovery: multicenter randomized controlled trial in China.
Acupuncture is a frequently used complementary treatment for ischemic stroke in China but the evidence available from previous randomized trials is inconclusive. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in a more robustly designed larger scale trial. ⋯ URL: http://www.chictr.org/en/. Unique identifier: ChiCTR-TRC-11001353.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Differential Effect of Baseline Computed Tomographic Angiography Collaterals on Clinical Outcome in Patients Enrolled in the Interventional Management of Stroke III Trial.
In the Interventional Management of Stroke (IMS) III trial, we sought to demonstrate evidence of a differential treatment effect of endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke compared with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator, according to baseline collateral status measured using computed tomographic angiography. ⋯ URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/. Unique identifier: 0020NCT00359424.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Type of anesthesia and differences in clinical outcome after intra-arterial treatment for ischemic stroke.
Intra-arterial treatment (IAT) in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) can be performed with or without general anesthesia (GA). Previous studies suggested that IAT without the use of GA (non-GA) is associated with better clinical outcome. Nevertheless, no consensus exists about the anesthetic management during IAT of AIS patients. This study investigates the association between type of anesthesia and clinical outcome in a large cohort of patients with AIS treated with IAT. ⋯ Our study suggests that patients with AIS of the anterior circulation undergoing IAT without GA have a higher probability of good clinical outcome compared with patients treated with general anesthesia.