Table 3 Characteristics of AICAO Patients with mRS.

From: Evaluation of contralateral arterial flow compensation using transcranial Doppler in acute internal carotid artery occlusion and implications for neurological outcome

Parameters

mRS (0–2) (n = 21)

mRS (3–6) (n = 19)

One-tailed P value

Demographics

 Age

67.38 ± 8.99

77.05 ± 9.65

0.002

 Sex (male %)

18(85.7%)

19(100.0%)

0.233

Risk factors

 Smoking history (%)

15(71.4%)

11(57.9%)

0.51

 Atrial fibrillation (%)

5(23.8%)

2(10.5%)

0.412

 Diabetes (%)

12(57.1%)

9(43.7%)

0.614

 Hypertension (%)

16(76.2%)

15(78.9%)

1.000

Clinical features

 NIHSSe

13.81 ± 2.82

17.79 ± 3.89

< 0.001

 NIHSS1

15.62 ± 2.33

18.84 ± 2.59

< 0.001

 ACoA

14(66.7%)

5(26.3%)

0.014

 PCoA

7(33.3%)

6(31.6%)

1.000

 EICC

0(0.00%)

8(42.1%)

< 0.001

 ASPECTs1

5.71 ± 1.06

4.42 ± 1.89

0.014

Treatment

 Intravenous rtPA

18(85.7%)

9(47.4%)

0.017