Correspondence to Professor Alvin Yi-Chou Wang, Department of Neurosurgery, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, China; alvinfree{at}icloud.com ...

Background Five randomized controlled trials recently appeared in the literature demonstrating that early mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke is significantly related to an ...

Background Rates of durable aneurysm occlusion following coil embolization vary widely, and a better understanding of coil mass mechanics is desired. The goal of this study is to evaluate the impact ...

Background Prehospital stroke triage scales help with the decision to transport patients with suspected stroke to suitable hospitals. Objective To explore the effect of the region-wide use of the ...

Neurointervention is a highly specialized area of medicine and, as such, neurointerventional research studies are often more challenging to conduct, require large, multicenter efforts and longer study ...

Background The FRED X flow diverter (FREDX), as the second generation in the FRED series, aims to improve the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. This study compares the efficacy and safety of FREDX with ...

Background Endovascular therapy (EVT) stands as an established and effective intervention for acute ischemic stroke in patients harboring tandem lesions (TLs). However, the optimal anesthetic strategy ...

Background The effects of thrombus imaging characteristics on procedural and clinical outcomes after ischemic stroke are increasingly being studied. These thrombus characteristics – for eg, size, ...

Background and purpose Acute stroke caused by large vessel occlusions (LVOs) requires emergent detection and treatment by endovascular thrombectomy. However, radiologic LVO detection and treatment is ...

Objective To evaluate the rate of peri-procedural thromboembolic events after the endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms. The rate of diffusion-positive lesions was assessed in relation to ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr A L Coon, ...