Conclusions:
intracranial hemorrhage, ICH, sICH, ischemic stroke
INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, ISCHEMIC STROKE
The investigated models to predict sICH or ICH discriminate poorly between patients with a low and high risk of sICH after endovascular treatment in daily clinical practice and are, therefore, not clinically useful for this patient population.Reperfusion therapy (ie, intravenous thrombolytics (IVT), endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), or a combination of both) is an effective treatment for ischemic stroke at group level, despite the increased average risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH).Several prediction models that aim to identify patients with a high risk of sICH after reperfusion therapy have been published.We aimed to provide an overview of currently published models to predict sICH or ICH after reperfusion therapy and to externally validate their ability to predict sICH in patients treated with EVT in daily clinical practice.