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Their clinical outcomes following medical management alone have been scarcely described.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Patients and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted a retrospective, multicentre, international study of consecutive AIS due to isolated proximal ACA occlusion (A1 or A2 segment) admitted within 6\u00a0h of symptom onset and treated with best medical management alone (ie, without endovascular therapy), across 23 centres in France and Switzerland. The primary outcome was poor functional outcome, defined as a mRS score\u00a0&amp;gt;\u00a02 at 3\u00a0months or failure to return to baseline mRS if the pre-stroke mRS was\u00a0&amp;gt;\u00a02. Associations between baseline clinical\/radiological variables and outcome were evaluated in multivariable logistic regression analyses. Associations between outcome and key radiological follow-up variables such as recanalisation and haemorrhagic transformation were also analysed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Ninety-five patients were included in the study: median age was 76 (IQR, 66\u201387), baseline NIHSS score was 10 (IQR, 5\u201315) and occlusion site was A1 in 8 (8%) and A2 in 87 (92%). Intravenous thrombolysis was administered in 76 (80%) cases. Poor functional outcome was observed in 47 (49%) patients. Among baseline variables, older age (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] per 5-year increase\u00a0=\u00a01.25; 95% CI, 1.10\u20131.55; P\u00a0=\u00a0.028) and higher NIHSS score (aOR\u00a0=\u00a01.20, 95% CI, 1.07\u20131.34; P\u00a0&amp;lt;\u00a0.001) were independently associated with poor outcome. Lack of recanalisation at 24 h was also independently associated with poor outcome (aOR\u00a0=\u00a014.5, 95% CI, 1.1\u2013188.7, P\u00a0=\u00a0.04). Poor outcome was higher in patients with than in those without haemorrhagic transformation (73% vs 42%, P\u00a0=\u00a0.03) in univariable analysis, but not in multivariable analysis adjusting for age and NIHSS score (aOR\u00a0=\u00a02.3, 95% CI, 0.5\u201311.5, P\u00a0=\u00a0.32).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion and conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Nearly half of AIS patients with isolated proximal ACA occlusion treated with medical management alone had poor 3-month functional outcomes. Older age, high NIHSS at admission and lack of recanalisation at 24\u00a0h were associated with poor outcome. These results underscore the need to investigate therapeutic strategies aimed at enhancing early arterial recanalisation to improve recovery in this population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/esj\/aakag014","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,14]],"date-time":"2026-03-14T15:46:12Z","timestamp":1773503172000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Clinical outcome following best medical management in acute stroke with a proximal isolated occlusion of the anterior cerebral artery: an international multicentre study"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1721-2694","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Candice","family":"Sabben","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Neurology Department, Rothschild Foundation Hospital , Paris 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