Treatment
At present there is only one medicine that is widely recommended to treat ischemic stroke.
This medicine, a clot-dissolving agent, can only be administered by a doctor and must be given soon after stroke has occurred.
Apart from this medicine, there is an option of mechanical removal of the blood cloth, called mechanical thrombectomy. Mechanical thrombectomy is a promising new modality of interventional stroke treatment. The various devices differ with regard to where they apply force on the thrombus, taking a proximal approach such as aspiration devices or a distal approach such as basket-like devices.