Could a direct brain artery injection improve stroke recovery?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient/legally authorized representative has signed the Informed Consent Form * Ability to comply with the study protocol, in the investigator's judgment * Functionally independent (modified Rankin scale 0-2) prior to presentation * Baseline National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) ≥ 6 * Clinical syndrome consistent with occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) or proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA), presenting within 4.5- to 24-hours of TLKW * Evidence of ICA, MCA-M1, or MCA-M2 occlusion on baseline computed tomography angiogram (CTA) or magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA). ICA/MCA tandem occlusions may be enrolled * Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score ≥ 6 on pre-thrombectomy unenhanced CT as determined by treating neurologist or reading radiologist * Pre-thrombectomy CTP or MRP with core infarction (cerebral blood flow \< 30%) \< 70 ml, mismatch ratio ≥ 1.8, mismatch volume ≥ 15 ml (completed within 120 minutes of skin puncture for thrombectomy). If skin puncture occurs more than 120 minutes after the pre-thrombectomy CTP, enrollment may proceed at the PI's discretion. * Endovascular thrombectomy of ICA, MCA-M1 or MCA-M2 occlusion performed according to local standard of care, defined as at least completing the initial diagnostic angiogram * CTP performed with RAPID AI AngioFlowTM within 30 minutes of thrombectomy completion * Modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction (mTICI) 2b-3 revascularization following endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) (or after initial diagnostic angiogram) * Presence of Tm \> 6 lesion on post-EVT CTP of adequate quality for interpretation in the distribution of the symptomatic occlusion Exclusion Criteria: * Current participation in another investigational drug or device study * Known hypersensitivity or allergy to any ingredients of tenecteplase * Active internal bleeding * Known bleeding diathesis (e.g., Alzheimer's patients taking lecanemab) * Systolic blood pressure \> 185 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure \> 110 mm Hg after EVT, refractory to medical therapy * Known hereditary or acquired hemorrhagic diathesis, coagulation factor deficiency; recent oral anticoagulant therapy with INR \> 1.7 * Use of one of the new oral anticoagulants within the last 48 hours (dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban) * Treatment with a thrombolytic within the last 3 months prior to randomization * Baseline platelet count \< 100,000/mcL (results must be available prior to treatment) * Baseline blood glucose \> 400 mg/dL (22.20 mmol/L) * Baseline blood glucose \< 50 mg/dL; needs to be normalized prior to randomization * Intracranial or intraspinal surgery or trauma within 2 months * Intracranial malignant neoplasm, arteriovenous malformation, or unsecured aneurysm \> 1 cm * Other serious, advanced, or terminal illness (investigator's judgment) or life expectancy is less than 6 months * History of acute ischemic stroke in the last 90 days * History of hemorrhagic stroke * Presumed septic embolus; suspicion of bacterial endocarditis * Any other condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, precludes an endovascular procedure or poses a significant hazard to the patient if an endovascular procedure was to be performed * Pregnant * Acute intracranial hemorrhage on pre-thrombectomy imaging or suspected acute intracranial hemorrhage after EVT * Acute bilateral strokes on initial imaging * Multiple acute intracranial occlusions (except ICA/MCA) on initial CTA or MRA * Significant hemispheric mass effect or any amount of midline shift due to acute stroke * Placement of cervical carotid or intracranial stent during thrombectomy procedure requiring dual antiplatelet therapy