Secondary prevention of patients with ischaemic stroke after recanalization treatment

Abstract

We performed a retrospective analysis of 100 patients with ischaemic stroke. All patients underwent intravenous thrombolysis in the acute care setting (avg. 2.8 hours, max 4.5 hours) and 10 of them also underwent mechanical thrombectomy. For 20% of the patients, the stroke was fatal. Door to needle time was 38.46 minutes. Although changes in antithrombotic treatment were introduced due to strokes, there was no significant difference in National Institute of Health Stroke Scale scores between the patients who were on antithrombotic treatment and those who were on no antithrombotic treatment.

Keywords

• ischaemic stroke
• secondary prevention
• antiplatelet therapy
• anticoagulant therapy
• intravenous thrombolysis