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• Intravenous Tenecteplase before Thrombectomy in Stroke May 21, 2025
  Among 550 patients with stroke due to large-vessel occlusion who had presented within 4.5 hours after onset, 90-day functional outcomes were better with intravenous tenecteplase before thrombectomy than with thrombectomy alone.
  Zhongming Qiu, Fengli Li, Hongfei Sang, Guangxiong Yuan, Dongjing Xie, Kai Zhou, Maohua Li, Zhaoyou Meng, Zhenyu Kong, Zhongfan Ruan, Chaoqun Li, Guangui Yang, Junxiong Wu, Chen Long, Bo Yang, Hai Hu, Yanling Li, Jun Luo, Zhonghua Shi, Xianjun Huang, Shunfu Jiang, Tingyu Yi, Guoyong Zeng, Jincheng Liu, Xiaojun Luo, Shudong Liu, Mingze Chang, Youlin Wu, Yufeng Tang, Zhenxuan Tian, Zhizhong Yan, Haojin Zhao, Yuqi Peng, Hongguo Dai, Peiyang Zhou, Huagang Li, Wenhua Liu, Dengwen Song, Bo Lei, Zhongbin Xia, Xiaolin Tan, Maojun Zhao, Xinggang Feng, Lingyu Cai, Qi Li, Yuelu Wu, Bingwu Jiang, Yan Tian, Linyu Li, Ling Jiang, Xingmin Long, Feng You, Jian Tao, Jin Zhou, Derong Wu, Chong Zheng, Congguo Yin, Duolao Wang, Mengjie Lu, Gregory W. Albers, Raul G. Nogueira, Bruce C.V. Campbell, Thanh N. Nguyen, Jeffrey L. Saver, Wenjie Zi, Qingwu Yang, the BRIDGE-TNK Trial Investigators*
• Biopsy of Peripheral Lung Nodules — Inside Out or Outside In? May 18, 2025
  Pulmonary nodules are detected in more than 1.5 million U.S. residents every year. Nodules are identified incidentally on at least 20% of all diagnostic chest computed tomographic (CT) scans and are found even more commonly on screening low-dose CT scans. Most lung nodules are harmless. However, approximately 5% of nodules...
  Michael K. Gould
• Navigational Bronchoscopy or Transthoracic Needle Biopsy for Lung Nodules May 18, 2025
  In this randomized trial, biopsy of indeterminate pulmonary lesions with navigational bronchoscopy was noninferior to that with transthoracic needle biopsy and led to fewer complications.
  Robert J. Lentz, Katherine Frederick-Dyer, Virginia B. Planz, Tatsuki Koyama, Matthew C. Aboudara, Sameer K. Avasarala, Jonathan D. Casey, George Z. Cheng, Pierre-François D’Haese, Jennifer D. Duke, Eric L. Grogan, Todd C. Hoopman, Joyce Johnson, James M. Katsis, Jonathan S. Kurman, See-Wei Low, Kamran Mahmood, Otis B. Rickman, Lance Roller, Cristina Salmon, Samira Shojaee, Briana Swanner, Momen M. Wahidi, Charla Walston, Gerard A. Silvestri, Lonny Yarmus, Najib M. Rahman, Fabien Maldonado, the Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group*