Recommendations on angiographic revascularization grading standards for acute ischemic stroke: a consensus statement.

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Published in Stroke on August 06, 2013

Authors

Osama O Zaidat1, Albert J Yoo, Pooja Khatri, Thomas A Tomsick, Rüdiger von Kummer, Jeffrey L Saver, Michael P Marks, Shyam Prabhakaran, David F Kallmes, Brian-Fred M Fitzsimmons, J Mocco, Joanna M Wardlaw, Stanley L Barnwell, Tudor G Jovin, Italo Linfante, Adnan H Siddiqui, Michael J Alexander, Joshua A Hirsch, Max Wintermark, Gregory Albers, Henry H Woo, Donald V Heck, Michael Lev, Richard Aviv, Werner Hacke, Steven Warach, Joseph Broderick, Colin P Derdeyn, Anthony Furlan, Raul G Nogueira, Dileep R Yavagal, Mayank Goyal, Andrew M Demchuk, Martin Bendszus, David S Liebeskind, Cerebral Angiographic Revascularization Grading (CARG) Collaborators, STIR Revascularization working group, STIR Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction (TICI) Task Force

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA. szaidat@mcw.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Assessment and Quantification of Collateral by ASL MRI | NCT02479243

Aureva Transcranial Ultrasound Device With tPA in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke (TRUST) | NCT03519737

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