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Despite the lack of clinical benefit from albumin therapy in stroke patients, emerging data support the use of crystalloid and albumin combination therapy for improving outcomes in sepsis. However, the potential utility of this combination therapy specifically in stroke patients with sepsis has yet to be determined. The objective of this study is to investigate the correlation between the combination of albumin with crystalloids and the 90-day mortality of ischemic stroke patients with sepsis. We included ischemic stroke patients with sepsis from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-IV database. Patients were categorized into the crystalloids group (crystalloids alone) and the combination group. Kaplan-Meier curves were applied to identify the survival probabilities of patients after different therapies for the 90-day. Multivariate COX regression analysis was used to investigate the association between different therapies and 90-days all-cause mortality. The Kaplan-Meier curve showed that patients in the combination group, especially those in the non-early combination group, had worse 90-day survival rate than those in the crystalloids group (all log-rank\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.05). In multivariate analyses, early combination therapy showed no significant association with reduced mortality, whereas non-early combination therapy remained independently associated with an increased risk of 90-day all-cause mortality (all\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009&lt;\u20090.05). The above results were consistent in the post-PSM analyses and subgroup analyses. 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