Treatment With Endovascular Intervention for STroke Patients With Existing Disability

Other illness

• Known diagnosis of a terminal cancer or terminal illness at the time of stroke
• Assessment of pre-stroke functional status cannot be performed during the hospital stay
• Pre-stroke disability deemed temporary in the investigator's opinion (for example, recovering from a general medical illness or traumatic bodily injury)

• Adult patients (≥18 years)
• Moderate-to-severe pre-stroke functional disability, defined as mRS 3-4, for at least 3 months prior to stroke onset
• Presenting to study hospital within 24 hours of last known well time
• Diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke
• Intracranial causative occlusion of the internal carotid artery or the M1 or dominant M2 segments of the middle cerebral artery visualized on the baseline CT(or MR) angiogram
• Presenting CT Alberta Stroke Program Early CT (ASPECT) score ≥3 or MRI ASPECT score ≥4
• Presenting NIH Stroke Scale score ≥6
• Informed consent from patient if competent or from legally authorized representative