TABLE 1.
Patient characteristics.
| All patients | IA patients | IV patients | p (IA vs. IV) | |
| N, number of patients | 145 | 102 (70%) | 43 (30%) | – |
| Mean age (SD), years | 71.18 (12.14) | 70.61 (12.41) | 72.53 (11.50) | 0.385 |
| Median NIHSS (IQR) | 16 (6) | 16 (6) | 17 (6) | 0.425 |
| Sex, % female | 43.45 | 49.02 | 30.23 | 0.037* |
| Median symptom onset to imaging (IQR), minutes | 172 (146) | 172 (140) | 118 (162) | 0.081 |
| Mean ground truth lesion volume (SD), ml | 74.59 (100.7) | 55.64 (74.37) | 117.5 (134.9) | 0.005* |
| Successful reperfusion (TICI ≥ 2B) | – | 78% | – | – |
| Complete reperfusion (TICI = 3) | – | 26% | – | – |
IA indicates treatment with intra-arterial mechanical thrombectomy with or without thrombolysis, while IV indicates treatment with thrombolysis only.
*Indicates statistical significance at alpha ≤ 0.05.