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What blood pressure goals do you typically target for patients in the immediate post thrombectomy period?

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Neurology · Yale University

There aren't excellent data to guide this decision. In general, I make a patient-specific decision. For all patients (both tPA treated and otherwise), I target <180/100. If they're TICI 0-1, I usually keep to that. With TICI 2a, I usually lower to <160 and with 2b/3 I usually lower to <140. The guid...

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Neurology · Boston Medical Center

Agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last, there is new data from the ENCHANTED2 study (published in Lancet October 2022) now that in patients with persistently elevated SBP after achieving TICI 2b/c/3 reperfusion, that one should avoid SBP target < 120 mm Hg as this is associated with harm.

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