ChinaClot removal helped some patients 24 to 72 hours after stroke.
Until now, evidence supported the procedure to 24 hours, leaving later arrivals with fewer options.
A 336-patient trial in the New England Journal of Medicine enrolled only patients whose scans showed salvageable tissue.
Brain bleeds hit 28.3% of treated patients against 5.5% of controls, and 6% died against 1.8%.
With 13 deaths in total, the researchers cannot rule out chance as the cause of the gap.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 80+ reports worldwide
- ScienceAlert
- cites the 1.9 million neurons lost per untreated minute, and frames the longer treatment window as a study with caveats
- Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd
- warns that mild strokes or TIAs often leave lasting memory and concentration problems, aimed at Indian households
Sources: ScienceAlert, Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd