Table 2.
Dose area product (DAP) of endovascular stroke treatment according to the number of thrombectomy attempts
| Patients receiving mechanical thrombectomy | DAP (Gy cm2) | Median increase of DAP due to each additional thrombectomy attempt (Gy cm2) | Median increase of DAP due to each additional thrombectomy attempt (%) | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of thrombectomy attempts | Patients, n | Mean (SD) | Median | IQR | MIN-MAX | |||
| 1 | 204 | 88.6 (65.1) | 68.7 | 51.2–106.8 | 11.6–470.6 | |||
| 2 | 122 | 123.8 (60.9) | 106.4 | 84.8–155.6 | 31.2–456.9 | 37.7 | 54.9 | < 0.001 |
| 3 | 79 | 143.4 (71.8) | 130.2 | 89.1–183.6 | 41–391.5 | 23.9 | 22.4 | 0.044 |
| 4 | 59 | 181.8 (75.5) | 169.9 | 128.4–244.1 | 60.1–375.3 | 39.7 | 30.5 | 0.001 |
| 5 | 31 | 246.3 (140.7) | 227.6 | 146.3–294.6 | 73.7–773.6 | 57.6 | 33.9 | 0.019 |
| ≥ 6 | 49 | 261.6 (115.9) | 242.2 | 183.8–332.7 | 62–597 | 14.7 | 6.4 | 0.346 |