Endovascular thrombectomy for medium-vessel occlusion stroke shows no benefit over usual care at 90 days and is linked to increased mortality, a multicenter trial finds.

Atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis is relatively frequent in ... ischemia either through direct hemodynamic impairment of the cerebral blood circulation or, more commonly, as a source of ...

In patients with occlusion, deficits during hospital stay were more severe than in controls (initial NIHSS score 9.8 versus 4.2, P <0.001), although were far milder than in typical MCA occlusions.