Background: Distal medium vessel occlusions (DMVOs) are increasingly recognized as a next target for endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). Our objective was to investigate safety and clinical outcomes of EVT for DMVO of the middle cerebral artery (MCA).
Methods: We analyzed data of the Lille Reperfusion Registry from January 2017 to September 2020.
Background And Purpose: We aimed to evaluate among trained interventional neuroradiologist, whether increasing individual experience was associated with an improvement in mechanical thrombectomy (MT) procedural performance metrics.
Methods: Individual MT procedural data from 5 centers of the Endovascular Treatment in Ischemic Stroke registry and 2 additional high-volume stroke centers were pooled. Operator experience was defined for each operator as a continuous variable, cumulating the number of MT procedures performed since January 2015, as MT became standard of care or, if later than this date, since the operator started performing mechanical thrombectomies in autonomy.