Intravenous thrombolysis before endovascular therapy for large vessel strokes can lead to significantly higher hospital costs without improving outcomes
Key points: Nowadays there are a number of trials that have shown improved outcomes following endovascular therapy for LVO strokes compared with standard therapies alone, but only a little number of patients is treated without prior IV recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). For this reason the question of whether previous IV rt-PA really help the Read more about Intravenous thrombolysis before endovascular therapy for large vessel strokes can lead to significantly higher hospital costs without improving outcomes[…]