Ischemic Post-conditioning in Acute Ischemic Stroke Thrombectomy

"Direct local ischemic post-conditioning will be applied after successful recanalization of the culprit middle cerebral artery. Local ischemic post-conditioning consists of briefly repeated 4 cycles of occlusion and reperfusion (equal duration) of the initially occluded culprit middle cerebral artery using a balloon. The schedule of advancing duration is 0 1 2 3 4 5 min."