Medtronic’s Solitaire Gets STRATIS Real-World Stroke Boost
Executive Summary
Registry data presented at the International Stroke Conference confirm that mechanical thrombectomy with Medtronic’s Solitaire stent retriever can be safely performed in community hospitals as effectively as it was in the randomized trials observed in randomized trials. The results also show that the benefits of transferring a patient with an acute ischemic stroke to a comprehensive stroke center are usually not worth the extra time it takes to transport the patient there.
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