Endovascular therapy plus conventional medical treatment vs medical treatment: Death or stroke
Endovascular treat ment plus medical treatment showed no clear difference in 30‐day post‐randomisation death/stroke compared with medical treatment alone (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Endovascular treat ment plus medical treatment vs medical treatment alone 30‐day post‐randomisation death/stroke · people with vertebral artery stenosis Endovascular treat ment plus medical treatment showed no clear difference in 30‐day post‐randomisation death/stroke compared with medical treatment alone (low certainty). Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting for vertebral artery stenosis (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 2.33 [0.77, 7.07] | 3 studies · 349 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting for vertebral artery stenosis 2022 · 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.