Nationwide Access to Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in Portugal

CONCLUSION: The overall national rate of EVT in the first two years after the organization of EVT-capable centers is one of the highest among European countries, however, significant regional disparities were documented. Moreover, stroke-onset-to-first-door times and in-hospital procedural times in the EVT centers were comparable to those reported in the randomized controlled trials performed in high-volume tertiary hospitals.PMID:34499849 | DOI:10.20344/amp.15031

Source: Acta Medica Portuguesa - September 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mariana Carvalho Dias Ricardo Soares Dos Reis Jo ão Vasco Santos Ana Paiva Nunes Patricia Ferreira Bruno Maia Isabel Fragata Joao Reis Joana Ramos Lopes Luis Cruz Gustavo Santo Egidio Machado Denis Gabriel Rui Felgueiras Hugo Mota D ória Angelo Carneiro Source Type: research