Revisiting the Concept of Futile Thrombectomy in Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes

Conference room

Jacques MORET, Laurent SPELLE, Alejandro BERENSTEIN, Christophe COGNARD, Christian DENIER, Urs FISCHER, Tufail PATANKAR

Raul G. NOGUEIRA

R.G. Nogueira from the United States discusses so-called "futile thrombectomy", making the case that a difficult thrombectomy is not necessarily futile, and that sometimes it is difficult because practitioners have not optimized their techniques.