Ischemic Post-conditioning in Acute Ischemic Stroke Thrombectomy (PROTECT-2)

Ischemic post-conditioning will be applied after successful recanalization of the culprit artery achieve by thrombectomy. Ischemic post-conditioning consists of briefly repeated 4 cycles × 2 minutes of occlusion and reperfusion (equal duration) of the initially occluded artery using a balloon.

Successful recanalization was achieved by mechanical thrombectomy without subsequent ischemic post-conditioning.