Mechanical Thrombectomy & Stenting
Mechanical thrombectomy is an advanced treatment of an ischemic stroke (a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain) that is only available at specialized facilities. It is an alternative strategy for opening the vessels and is useful for patients who are neither eligible for intravenous or intra-arterial thrombolysis. In this procedure a catheter is navigated to the blocked blood vessel and special devices are used to extract the clot from the vessel.