The Impact of Inter-Hospital Transfer before Endovascular Thrombectomy on Long-Term Outcomes after Acute Ischemic Stroke
Nearly half of EVT patients underwent inter-hospital transfer, which showed a time-varying association with all-cause mortality, with early risk that attenuated after 6.3 months and reversed over time.
Authors
- Douglas S. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7078-745X)
- Moira K. Kapral (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3444-9928)
- Jiming Fang
- Zhixing Hong
- Amy Y. X. Yu
- Robert W. Murphy
Institutions
- University of Toronto (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
- Published
- 2026-01-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/cjn.2026.10551
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 63.04