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Response to: Correspondence on ‘High fibrin and platelet clot predicts stroke recurrence or mortality after thrombectomy in patients with active cancer’ by Huang et al
  1. Chuan-Hsiu Fu1,
  2. Chih-Hao Chen2,
  3. Sung-Chun Tang2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  2. 2Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sung-Chun Tang; sctang{at}ntuh.gov.tw

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We thank the reader1 for the interest in our recent article: ‘High fibrin and platelet clot predicts stroke recurrence or mortality after thrombectomy in patients with active cancer.’2

The main purpose of our study was to demonstrate the correlation between thrombus composition and short-term outcomes of stroke recurrence or mortality after endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) in patients with active cancer. Therefore, we collected all available cases with active cancer in our registry in a given time frame to observe the target interests. The sample size for this analysis was not estimated …

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  • Contributors Drafting and critical revision of the manuscript: C-HF, C-HC, S-CT (guarantor).

  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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