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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Aug 23;23(9):2316–2321. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2014.04.023

Table 4.

Comparison of in-hospital outcomes between patients who received IV treatment and those who received IA or combined IV + IA treatments by NIHSS scores

N (%) by NIHSS
Variables NIHSS < 10 P value NIHSS ≥ 10 P value
In-hospital mortality
 IV therapy only 72 (1.7) <.0001 549(11.1) <.0001
 IA therapy only 27 (6.7) 240 (18.4)
 IV + IA therapy 6 (7.6) 86 (16.7)
 Ambulated at discharge
 IV therapy only 2310(55.1) <.0001 1116(22.6) <.0001
 IA therapy only 163 (40.3) 175 (13.4)
 IV + IA therapy 32 (40.5) 111 (21.6)
Discharge home
 IV therapy only 2329 (55.5) <.0001 1136 (23.0) <.0001
 IA therapy only 160 (39.6) 161 (12.3)
 IV + IA therapy 35 (44.3) 95 (18.4)

Abbreviations: IA, intra-arterial; IV, intravenous; NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.