Tandem Lesions in Anterior Circulation Stroke: Analysis of the German Stroke Registry-Endovascular Treatment

Stroke. 2021 Apr;52(4):1265-1275. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031797. Epub 2021 Feb 16.

Katharina Feil^#^{1

2}, Moriz Herzberg^#^{3

4}, Franziska Dorn³, Steffen Tiedt⁵, Clemens Küpper¹, Dennis C Thunstedt¹, Panagiotis Papanagiotou^{6

7}, Lukas Meyer⁸, Andreas Kastrup, Konstantinos Dimitriadis⁵, Thomas Liebig³, Marianne Dieterich^{1

9

10}, Lars Kellert¹; GSR investigators†

GSR investigators†:
Tobias Boeckh-Behrens, Silke Wunderlich, Alexander Ludolph, Karl-Heinz Henn, Arno Reich, Anastasios Mpotsaris, Martin Wiesmann, Ulrike Ernemann, Sven Poli, Christian H Nolte, Eberhard Siebert, Sarah Zweynert, Georg Bohner, Laszlo Solymosi, Gabor Petzold, Waltraud Pfeilschifter, Fee Keil, Joachim Röther, Bernd Eckert, Jörg Berrouschot, Albrecht Bormann, Anna Alegiani, Jens Fiehler, Christian Gerloff, Götz Thomalla, Sven Thonke, Christopher Bangard, Christoffer Kraemer, Martin Dichgans, Marios Psychogios, Jan Liman, Martina Petersen, Florian Stögbauer, Peter Kraft, Mirko Pham, Michael Braun, Gerhard F Hamann, Christian Roth, Klaus Gröschel, Timo Uphaus, Volker Limmroth

¹ Department of Neurology (K.F., C.K., D.C.T., M.D., L.K.), Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
² Department of Neurology and Stroke, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany (K.F.).
³ Institute of Neuroradiology (M.H., F.D., T.L.), Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
⁴ Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Würzburg, Germany (M.H.).
⁵ Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital (S.T., K.D.), Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Areteion University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (P.P.).
⁷ Department of Neurology, Klinikum Bremen Mitte, Germany (P.P.).
⁸ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (L.M.).
⁹ German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders (M.D.), Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany.
¹⁰ Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Germany (M.D.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: carotid arteries; cerebral infarction; intravenous thrombolysis; large artery occlusion; mortality; pathology; thrombectomy.