Pre-Procedural Computed Tomography Angiogram for Patients Transferred for Thrombectomy: Can We Minimize Costs?
We validated that ≥33% neurological recovery between primary and tertiary stroke centre had the best sensitivity-specificity profile for predicting early recanalization. Modest cost savings occurred using this threshold, but in resource-poor settings, this may be more significant.
Authors
- Sameer Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2415-4333)
- Richard Dowling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4082-8676)
- Bernard Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8802-9606)
- Lan Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-1140)
- Yohanna Kusuma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-3066)
- Steven Bush (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7682-3300)
- Peter Mitchell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-7529)
- Cameron Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-8896)
- Conor Houlihan
Institutions
- The Royal Melbourne Hospital (AU)
- Deakin University (AU)
- Universitas Airlangga (ID)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Published
- 2025-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000548863
- Primary Topic
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00