Masterstroke: a vacuum cleaner for the brain
A neurologist talks about the life-saving therapy, thrombectomy
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Thrombectomy is a revolutionary stroke treatment where the offending clot is literally sucked out of the patient’s brain.
I performed my first thrombectomy in 2006, but I remember it as though it was yesterday.