In a selected group of patients, treatments revascularization by mechanical thrombectomy in acute stroke may improve the functional prognosis and clinical recovery. This is one of the study’s conclusions outcomes of a contemporary cohort of 536 consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients treated with endovascular therapy, conducted by the services of Neurology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Bellvitge, Hospital Vall d’Hebron Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital. Pere Cardona, M. Ángeles de Miguel and Francisco Rubio of University Hospital of

Bellvitge and the group of Neurological and neurogenetic diseases IDIBELL have participated in the study.

Shorten the time in which the patient is evaluated and wherein the reperfusion therapy is performed are variables associated with good results, and supports the notion of “time is brain.” The fact of efficient and complete recanalization by a device of last generation stent-retriever type has increased the success rate of these procedures. Variables such as being above 80 years of age, hypertension or vertebrobasilar stroke are those that have been associated with a worse prognosis and more mortality, whereas atrial fibrillation and severe neurological symptoms in the clinical debut are variables associated with better outcomes.

The objectives of the study are to evaluate the effectiveness of neurological recovery and functional independence of patients receiving endovascular treatment of reperfusion in acute stroke. The procedure followed was a multicenter patients in acute stroke with endovascular treatment with or without intravenous thrombolysis prospective observational study.

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