Mechanical, aspiration and intra-arterial thrombectomy. First case in a patient with an acute stroke in a hospital

• Autores: Saal-Zapata, Giancarlo, Rodríguez, Rodolfo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.upch.edu.pe:article/3726
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upch.edu.pe/index.php/RMH/article/view/3726
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Infarto cerebral; trombectomía; stent retriever; Cerebral infarction; thrombectomy; stent retriever

Acute stroke is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Mechanical thrombectomy is the endovascular procedure that has shown better results in patients with a large vessel involvement. We present here a case of a patient who had a five-hour history of thrombosis of the left middle cerebral artery who developed mixed aphasia and hemiparesis, ASPECTS scale of five, NIHSS score of 14 and a modified Rankin scale (mRS) of 4. A mechanical thrombectomy was performed with stents Solitaire AB and ERIC and manual aspiration of the clot with a 60cc syringe plus instillation of intra-arterial alteplase. Immediate reperfusion was complete (TICI 3). The mRS after the procedure was 2.