Table 2.

Clinical/radiological characteristics of all patients, sorted by responder patterns

Patient ID	Group RED (n = 4)				Group GREEN (n = 4)				Group BLUE (n = 4)
	1	2	8	13	3	4	10	12	5	7	11	15
Gender	m	m	m	f	m	f	m	m	f	f	m	f
Age	72	77	76	94	85	67	77	57	81	71	64	83
TOAST classification	LAA	CE	SVO	LAA	SVO	SVO	SUE	SODc	SVO	CE	SUE	SUE
Infarct characteristics
Initial cerebral imaging	CT	CT	CT	CT	MRI	CT	CT	CT	MRI	CT	CT	CT
Vascular supply area	MCA	MCA	MCA	MCA	MCA	PCA	MCA	PCA	MCA	ACA	PCA	MCA
Infarct sizea	< 1/3	< 2/3	< 1/3	< 2/3	< 1/3	< 1/3	no	< 1/3	< 1/3	< 2/3	< 2/3	no
Intracerebral artery occlusion	No	M2	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Recanalization	n.a	Yes	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a	n.a
Complications in follow-up imaging
Hemorrhagic transformation	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Edema	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Vascular risk factors
Carotid stenosis	90%	No	60%b	90%	No	No	50%	No	No	No	60%	No
Atrial fibrillation	No	Yes	No	no	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Arterial hypertension	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hyperlipidemia	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Diabetes mellitus	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Coronary heart disease	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Active smoking	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Alcohol abuse	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

m male, f female, LAA large-artery atherosclerosis, CE cardioembolism, SVO small-vessel occlusion, SUE stroke of undetermined etiology, SOD stroke of other determined etiology, MCA middle cerebral artery, PCA posterior cerebral artery, ACA anterior cerebral artery, n.a. not applicable/no intracerebral artery occlusion; ^aextend of infarction in the given vascular supply area; ^bcontralateral to cerebral infarct location, ^cpresumed basilar artery stenosis