Adjunctive intra-arterial thrombolysis after thrombectomy: Findings from the RITE registry
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Abstract
Background Despite the excellent recanalization rates following thrombectomy, significantly fewer patients have favorable outcomes. Impaired reperfusion of the microcirculation caused by distal thrombi could contribute to that, and adjunctive intraarterial thrombolysis such as alteplase (IA-tPA) might improve outcomes. We assessed the impact of adjunctive IA-tPA following thrombectomy with TICI score <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> </mml:math> 2A on functional outcomes and reperfusion status. Methods A retrospective analysis of patients with LVO ischemic stroke who underwent EVT. Patients were dichotomized into those who received EVT + IA-tPA vs EVT alone. Primary outcomes were favorable functional outcome (90-day mRS 0–2), and 90-day home-time. Results 354 patients were included, of which 133 (37.6%) were treated with EVT + IA-tPA and 221 (62.4%) were treated with EVT alone. Baseline characteristics were similar in both groups. The non-IA-tPA group had a significant proportion of patients with higher baseline TICI scores (P < 0.0001). There was no significant difference in the rate of favorable functional outcomes between patients who received IA-tPA vs those who did not (59.8% vs 66.1%; p = 0.27), 90-day home time was 77 (69–83) vs 66 (60–81) days, p = 0.26. There was no difference in the rate of sICH (2.2% vs 2.3%; P = 0.99), and mortality (15% vs 8.3%; P = 0.06). IA-tPA resulted in a significant improvement in TICI scores from 33.3% to 62.9% and was 3.4 times more likely to improve reperfusion status. Conclusion IA-tPA following thrombectomy with TICI score <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> </mml:math> 2A appeared to be safe and improved the final TICI score; however, this angiographic improvement did not translate into functional outcomes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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