Endovascular therapy plus conventional medical treatment vs conventional medical treatment alone: Death
Endovascular therapy plus conventional medical treatment may leads to higher death compared with conventional medical treatment alone (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Endovascular therapy plus conventional medical treatment vs conventional medical treatment alone Death · people with symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis Endovascular therapy plus conventional medical treatment may leads to higher death compared with conventional medical treatment alone (low certainty). Endovascular therapy versus medical treatment for symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 5.43 [1.21, 24.4] | 4 studies · 989 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endovascular therapy versus medical treatment for symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.