An Overview of Meta-Analyses of Endovascular Bridging Therapies for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Table 1

Relevant primary studies in the included meta-analysis (RCTs).

	ET + IVT versus IVT							IAT versus IVT		EBT versus IVT
Primary studies from meta-analysis	Singh et al. 2013	Balami et al. 2015	Elgendy et al. 2015	Badhiwala et al. 2015	Goyal et al. 2016	Bush et al. 2016	Campbell et al. 2016	Lee et al. 2010	Fields et al. 2011	Fargen et al. 2015
First author (year)
PROACT (1998)
PROACT II (1999)
Keris et al. (2001)
Macleod et al. (2005)
MELT (2007)
Sen et al. (2009)
Ciccone et al. (2010)
SYNTHESIS (2013)
MR RESCUE (2013)
IMS III (2013)
MR CLEAN (2015)
ESCAPE (2015)
EXTEND-IA (2015)
SWIFT PRIME (2015)
REVASCAT (2015)
THERAPY (2015)
THRACE (2015)

EBT: endovascular bridging therapies; IAT: intra-arterial pharmacologic thrombolysis; ET: endovascular thrombectomy; IVT: intravenous rt-PA; RCT: randomized controlled trials.