Fig. 1

Patient Flowchart. A total of 386 AIS-patients underwent recanalizing therapy. After exclusion of patients with EVT only, 276 IVT-treated patients remained for analyses (rt-PA: n = 138, TNK: n = 138). Abbreviations: AIS indicates acute ischemic stroke; IVT, intravenous thrombolysis; EVT, endovascular treatment