Fig 3.

DSA of intracranial reperfusion. The same patient as in Fig 2 underwent mechanical thrombectomy following a distal occlusion first recanalization strategy. The figure shows the angiogram of the intracranial vasculature of left internal carotid artery before and after MT with a stent retriever. Before MT (A and B), the angiogram shows the occlusion of left middle cerebral artery (segment M1) with a TICI score of 0 and a poor pial collaterality from the anterior cerebral artery. MT allowed complete reperfusion of the MCA territory with a TICI score of 3 (C and D) without any distal emboli.