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Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction during Early versus Late Endovascular Treatment in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Author(s): Wenting Guo, Ning Li, Jiali Xu, Jin Ma, Sijie Li, Changhong Ren, Jian Chen, Jiangang Duan, Qingfeng Ma, Haiqing Song, Wenbo Zhao* and Xunming Ji*

Volume 20, Issue 2, 2023

Published on: 03 August, 2023

Page: [254 - 260] Pages: 7

DOI: 10.2174/1567202620666230710114443

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Abstract

Introduction: Endovascular treatment (EVT) performed in the early time window has been shown to decrease the incidence of malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (MMI). However, the incidence of MMI in patients undergoing EVT during the late time window is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of MMI in patients undergoing late EVT and compare it with that in patients undergoing early EVT.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed consecutive patients with anterior large vessel occlusion stroke who underwent EVT at Xuanwu Hospital between January 2013 and June 2021. Eligible patients were divided into early EVT (within 6 h) and late EVT (6-24 h) groups according to the time from their stroke onset to puncture and compared. The occurrence of MMI post-EVT was the primary outcome.

Results: A total of 605 patients were recruited, of whom 300 (50.4%) underwent EVT within 6 h and 305 (49.6%) underwent EVT within 6-24 h. A total of 119 patients (19.7%) developed MMI. 68 patients (22.7%) in the early EVT group and 51 patients (16.7 %) in the late EVT group developed MMI (p = 0.066). After adjusting for covariate variables, late EVT was independently associated with a lower incidence of MMI (odds ratio, 0.404; 95% confidence interval, 0.242-0.675; p = 0.001).

Conclusion: MMI is not an uncommon phenomenon in the modern thrombectomy era. Compared with the early time window, patients selected by stricter radiological criteria to undergo EVT in the late time window are independently associated with a lower incidence of MMI.

Keywords: Stroke, endovascular therapy, time window, malignant middle cerebral artery infarction, radiological, thrombectomy era.

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