Internal medicine

Occlusion

Stent

Stroke (engine)

First pass

Mathematics

Ischemia

Engineering

Surgery

Randomized controlled trial

Modified Rankin Scale

Ischemic stroke

Clinical trial

Medicine

Mechanical engineering

Arithmetic

The Lancet

A direct aspiration as first pass thrombectomy conferred non-inferior functional outcome at 90 days compared with stent retriever first line thrombectomy. This study supports the use of direct aspiration as an alternative to stent retriever as first-line therapy for stroke thrombectomy.

Aspiration thrombectomy versus stent retriever thrombectomy as first-line approach for large vessel occlusion (COMPASS): a multicentre, randomised, open label, blinded outcome, non-inferiority trial