Endovascular therapy versus medical treatment for symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis

CONCLUSIONS: This review provides moderate-certainty evidence that ET plus CMT compared with CMT alone increases the risk of short-term stroke and death in people with recent symptomatic severe ICAS. This effect was still apparent at long-term follow-up but appeared to be due to the early risks of ET; therefore, there may be no clear difference between the interventions in terms of their effects on long-term stroke and death. The impact of delayed ET intervention (more than three weeks after a qualifying event) warrants further study.PMID:36738471 | PMC:PMC9897029 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD013267.pub3

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - February 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jichang Luo Tao Wang Kun Yang Xue Wang Ran Xu Haozhi Gong Xiao Zhang Jie Wang Renjie Yang Peng Gao Yan Ma Liqun Jiao Source Type: research