Antithrombotic Treatment for Stroke Prevention in Cervical Artery Dissection: The STOP-CAD Study.

• DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.123.045731
• Publication Date: 2024-04-01
• Authors: Shadi Yaghi; Liqi Shu; Daniel Mandel; Christopher R. Le...; Nils Henninger; Jayachandra Muppa; Muhammad Affan; Omair ul haq Lodhi; Mirjam R. Heldner; Kateryna Antonenko; David Seiffge; Marcel Arnold; Setareh Salehi Omran; Ross Crandall; Evan Lester; Diego Lopez Mena; Antonio Araúz; Ahmad Nehme; Marion Boulanger; Emmanuel Touzé; João André Sousa; João Sargento‐Fre...; Vasco Barata; Paulo Castro‐Chaves; Maria Teresa Brito; Muhib Khan; Dania Mallick; Aaron Rothstein; Ossama Khazaal; Josefin Emelie Ka...; Stefan T. Engelter; Christopher Traenka; Diana Aguiar de S...; Mafalda Soares; Sara Rosa; Lily Zhou; Preet Gandhi; Thalia S. Field; Steven Mancini; Issa Metanis; Ronen R. Leker; Kelly Pan; Vishnu Dantu; Karl Baumgartner; Tina Burton; Regina von Rennen...; Christian H. Nolte; Richard Choi; Jason B. MacDonald; Reza Bavarsad Sha...; Xiaofan Guo; Malik Ghannam; Mohammad Almajali; Edgar A. Samaniego; Sebastian Sanchez; Bastien Rioux; Fayçal Zine-Eddine; Alexandre Y. Poppe; Ana Catarina Fonseca; Maria Fortuna Bap...; Diana Cruz; Michele Romoli; Giovanna De Marco; Marco Longoni; Zafer Keser; Kim Griffin; Lindsey Kuohn; Jennifer Frontera; Jordan Amar; James Giles; Marialuisa Zedde; Rosario Pascarella; Ilaria Grisendi; Hipólito Nzwalo; David S. Liebeskind; Amir Molaie; Annie Cavalier; Wayneho Kam; Brian Mac Grory; Sami Al Kasab; Mohammad Anadani; Kimberly Kicielinski; Ali Eltatawy; Lina Chervak; Roberto Chulluncu...; Yasmin Aziz; Ekaterina Bakradze; Thanh Lam Tran; Marc Rodrigo‐Gisbert; Manuel Requena; Faddi Saleh Velez; Jorge Ortiz Gracia; Varsha Mudassani; Adam de Havenon; Venugopalan Y. Vi...; Sridhara Yaddanapudi; L Adams; Abigail Browngoehl; Tamra Ranasinghe; Randy Dunston; Zachary Lynch; Mary Penckofer; James E. Siegler; Silvia Mayer; Joshua Z. Willey; Adeel Zubair; Yee Kuang Cheng; Richa Sharma; João Pedro Marto; Vítor Mendes Ferr...; Piers Klein; Thanh N. Nguyen; Syed Daniyal Asad; Zoha Sarwat; Anvesh Balabhadra; Shivam Patel; Thaís Leite Secchi; Sheila Cristina O...; Gabriel Mantovani; Young Dae Kim; Balaji Krishnaiah; Cheran Elangovan; Sivani Lingam; Abid Quereshi; Sebastián Fridman; Alonso Alvarado; Farid Khasiyev; Guillermo Linares; Marina Mannino; Valeria Terruso; Sofia Vassilopoulou; Vasilis Tentolouris; Manuel Martínez-M...; Victor Carrasco Wall; Fransisca Indraswari; Sleiman El Jamal; Shilin Liu; Muhammad Alvi; Farman Ali; Mohammed Sarvath; Rami Z. Morsi; Tareq Kass‐Hout; Feina Shi; Jinhua Zhang; Dilraj Sokhi; Jamil Said; Alexis N. Simpkins; R. Ariel Gómez; Shayak Sen; Mohammad R Ghani; Marwa Elnazeir; Han Xiao; Narendra Kala; Farhan Khan; Christoph Stretz; Nahid Mohammadzadeh; Eric Goldstein; Karen L. Furie
• Keywords: Stroke; Cervical Artery; Vertebral artery dissection

Small, randomized trials of patients with cervical artery dissection showed conflicting results regarding optimal stroke prevention strategies. We aimed to compare outcomes in treated antiplatelets versus anticoagulation.