Background Recent studies have shown that follow-up head CT is a strong predictor of functional outcomes in patients with middle cerebral artery stroke and mechanical thrombectomy. We sought to ...

Objective Large middle cerebral artery stroke (space-occupying middle-cerebral-artery (MCA) infarction (SO-MCAi)) results in a very high incidence of death and severe disability. Decompressive ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Malignant sylvian infarction (MSI) is a type of ischemic stroke (ICS) usually affecting the entire territory of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) associated with significant ...

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2.5 Criteria for MCAI Based on whether the infarction eventually progressed to malignant cerebral infarction, the groups were divided into malignant cerebral infarction and non-malignant cerebral ...

Background and Purpose— Predicting malignant middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction can help to identify patients who may benefit from preventive decompressive surgery. We aimed to investigate the ...

Objectives To compare the outcomes of decompressive craniectomy (DC) with craniotomy and debulikng of stroke tissue (Strokectomy (SC)) for malignant MCA infarction at our centre.