Abstract 25: Safety And Outcomes Of Endovascular Thrombectomy In Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients With Recent Use Of Non-vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants
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Abstract
Introduction: An increasing number of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) have recently used non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs). However, there are limited data on safety of endovascular therapy (EVT) in these patients. Methods: We performed a retrospective, observational, cohort study of patients treated with EVT within 6 hours of symptom onset in the American Heart Association’s “Get With The Guideline-Stroke Program” between October 2015 and March 2020 to compare safety and functional outcomes in patients who were or were not taking NOACs in the 7 days prior to stroke. Results: Of 33,355 patients (median age 72 years (60,81); 50.8% female), 3,727 (11.2%) were taking NOACs, and 29,628 (88.8%) were not taking any oral anticoagulants (OAC) prior to stroke. Compared with those not on OAC, patients taking NOACs were older (median age 75 vs. 71 years) and had a higher prevalence of comorbidities including cardiovascular risk factors, although stroke severity was similar between the groups (median NIHSS 18 vs. 17). After adjusting for baseline clinical factors including intravenous alteplase, patients taking NOACs were not at a significantly higher risk of sICH compared with patients not taking anticoagulants (4.9% vs 6.4%; aOR, 0.93 [95% CI, 0.75-1.14]) or in-hospital mortality (14.1% vs 13.1%; aOR, 0.90 [95% CI, 0.78-1.02]). Of the secondary discharge outcomes, 3 of 7 showed significant differences in favor of the NOAC group including ambulating independently (33.7% vs 38.7%; aOR, 1.15 [95% CI, 1.02-1.30]) and freedom from disability (modified Rankin Scale [mRS] 0-1, 13.0% vs 16.2%; aOR, 1.23 [95% CI, 1.04-1.46]) at discharge. In a subset of patients with documented time of last NOACs dose (n=213), sICH rate was 3.1% (6/196) with last dose ≤2 days and 0% (0/17) with >2 days. Conclusions: Among patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with EVT within 6 hours, use of NOACs within the preceding 7 days, compared with no use of anticoagulants, was not associated with a significantly increased risk of adverse events and was associated with better functional outcomes at discharge.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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