Figure 4.
(A) 54 year-old woman (initial NIHSS score: 15) showed left M1 occlusion on MR angiography (MRA, arrow). Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) before intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) shows susceptibility vessel sign (SVS, arrowhead) in left M1 segment. IVT was performed within 4 h from stroke onset. (B) Follow-up MRA after IVT shows recanalization of left M1. Follow-up SWI shows no SVS in left M1 segment. At 3 months, the modified Rankin scale of the patient was 0.