Correspondence to Dr Peter Kan, Neurosurgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA; ptkan{at}utmb.edu Background Survival for glioblastoma remains very poor ...

Purpose Large bore catheters are increasingly used in mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for large vessel occlusions (LVOs). Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the super-large bore Cereglide 0 ...

Objective Fractional flow (FF) reserve has been developed as a gold standard for coronary intervention. Intracranial FF is also a valuable hemodynamic index to assess the severity of narrowing in ...

Background Preoperative embolization has been used for intracranial meningiomas for nearly 40 years with varying preferences for embolic materials and limited comparative data on their efficacy.

Background Endovascular technological advances have revolutionized the field of neurovascular surgery and have become the mainstay of treatment for many cerebrovascular pathologies. Digital ...

Background Recent studies support the effectiveness of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for distal medium vessel occlusions (DMVOs). The RED 43 catheter has been introduced as a primary catheter for ...

In the recent editorial on middle meningeal artery embolization for chronic subdural hematoma,1 Levitt et al assert that the three recently published randomized trials of middle meningeal artery ...

Background Approximately one in three patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) suffer from a premorbid disability prior to their incident AIS. These patients have largely been excluded from clinical ...

Background Treatment options for cervical internal carotid artery (c-ICA) occlusion in tandem occlusions (TOs) include emergent carotid artery stenting (eCAS) and angioplasty. We attempted to ...

Background Preliminary clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of the pipeline embolization device (PED) for the treatment of small/medium aneurysms have demonstrated high occlusion rates with low ...

Correspondence to Dr Bart J Emmer, Department of Radiology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, Netherlands; b.j.emmer{at}amsterdamumc.nl Background Endovascular treatment (EVT) is ...

Background and purpose We aimed to identify the best definition of early neurological improvement (ENI) at 2 and 24 hours after mechanical thrombectomy (MT) and determine its ability to predict a good ...