Penumbra, Inc. Enrolls First Patient in the START Clinical Trial to Define Image Guided Patient Selection Criteria for Interventional Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stroke Team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC, including Aquilla Turk, DO, Associate Professor of Radiology, M. Imran Chaudry, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, and Raymond D. Turner IV, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, enrolled the first patient in the Stroke Treatment And Revascularization Therapy (START) trial. The START trial aims to correlate clinical outcome after acute stroke intervention to pragmatic image guided patient selection criteria.