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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Li-Mei Lin, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, UC Irvine Medical Center, 200 S. Manchester Ave, Suite 210, Orange, CA 92868, USA; ...

1 Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA 2 Department of Radiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA 3 ...

Background Untreated ischemic stroke can lead to severe morbidity and death, and as such, there are numerous endovascular blood-clot removal (thrombectomy) devices approved for human use. Human ...

Correspondence to Dr Carolina Sandoval-Garcia, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53792, USA; c.sandovalgarcia{at}neurosurgery.wisc ...

Correspondence to Dr R G Nogueira, Department of Neurology, Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center/Grady Memorial Hospital/Emory University, 80 Jesse Hill Drive SE Room #398, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; ...

3 Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital-Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Correspondence to Dr Matthew J Gounis, Department of Radiology, New England ...

Correspondence to Dr Masaomi Koyanagi, Neuroradiology and Intracranial Endovascular Therapy, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Rüttenscheid, Essen 45131, Germany; koyanagm{at}gmail.com Background Transvenous ...

Correspondence to Dr Yingkun He, Department of Cerebrovascular and Neurosurgery, Zhengzhou University People's Hospital, Zhengzhou 450003, Henan, China; heyingkun{at}zzu.edu.cn Background Drug-coated ...

Background and purpose Flow arrest with balloon guide catheters (BGCs) is becoming increasingly recognized as critical to optimizing patient outcomes for mechanical thrombectomy. We performed a ...

Correspondence to Professor Jianmin Liu, Department of Neurosurgery, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China; chstroke{at}163.com Purpose To compare the safety and ...

Surgical ventriculoperitoneal shunting remains standard treatment for communicating hydrocephalus, despite persistently elevated infection and revision rates. A novel minimally invasive endovascular ...