Clinical Trial of the New Stent Retriever Tron FX for both Proximal and Distal Intracranial Large Vessel Occlusions

Five randomized controlled trials (RCTs)1 –5 of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) to treat large vessel occlusion (LVO) within 6 to 12 h, and 2 RCTs6,7 within 6–24 h of time last known well have clarified the its efficacy, and acute MT has spread widely and rapidly. However, the target vessels in these studies were mainly proximal large ves sels such as the intracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) and the M1 portion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). Although the effectiveness of MT for M2/3 portion of MCA has been reported in meta-analysis8 and retrospective multicenter cohort9 studies, RCTs have not yet been conducted.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - January 5, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Hirotoshi Imamura, Nobuyuki Sakai, Hiroshi Yamagami, Tetsu Satow, Yasushi Matsumoto, Keisuke Imai, Shinzo Ota, Nobutaka Horie, Rei Kondo, Yukiko Enomoto, Shinichi Yoshimura, Masaru Hirohata, Masunari Shibata, Yuji Matsumaru, Nobuyuki Ohara, Chiaki Sakai, Source Type: research