Data availability
De-identified data collected for the study, including age, sex, baseline NIHSS score, treatment allocation, and functional outcome, will be shared beginning 3 months and ending 5 years following publication by requesting the corresponding author (Hui-Sheng Chen, email: chszh@aliyun.com) for academic purposes. The corresponding author will reply to the request within 2 months, subject to the approval of the ethics committees of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command. 