Given that final infarct volume strongly impacts neurological outcomes, 2 rescuing penumbral tissue after reperfusion can have major clinical relevance, considering there may be significant secondary injury accumulating over hours, days and weeks. 3 In clinical stroke studies, the measurement of the hyperintense lesion on T2 FLAIR has been conventionally considered as a convenient marker of the final stroke volume at both 30- and 90-days post stroke. 1 However, if the aim is to take a
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MRI measurement of the delayed secondary ischaemic injury following endovascular thrombectomy: results from the REPERFUSE-NA1 study.
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