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The authors compared vessel wall enhancement after intra-arterial thrombosuction with that in patients not treated by thrombosuction in a group of 49subjects with ischemic stroke with 7T MR imaging within 3 months after symptom onset. In the intra-arterial treatment group, 11 of 14 patients (79%) showed vessel wall enhancement compared with 17 of 35 patients without intra-arterial treatment (49%). In the intra-arterial treatment group, more enhancing foci were detected on the ipsilateral side compared with the contralateral side. They conclude that patients with intra-arterial treatment by means of thrombosuction showed more (concentric) enhancing foci of the vessel wall ipsilateral compared with contralateral to the treated artery than the patients without intra-arterial treatment, suggesting reactive changes of the vessel wall.