Background Cerebral embolism of coating fragments from endovascular devices represent a serious complication to neuroendovascular treatment that may cause ischemic infarction, intraparenchymal ...

Correspondence to Dr Giuseppe Lanzino, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW Rochester, MN 55905, USA; lanzino.giuseppe{at}mayo.edu Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is ...

Background Evaluating a new endovascular treatment for intracranial aneurysms must not only demonstrate short-term safety and efficacy, but also evaluate longer-term outcomes (eg, delayed ...

Background and purpose The results of the DAWN trial support the benefit of thrombectomy in patients with anterior circulation large vessel occlusion (LVO) acute stroke presenting within 6–24 hours ...

Background Mobile stroke units (MSUs) performance dependability and diagnostic yield of 16-slice, ultra-fast CT with auto-injection angiography (CTA) of the aortic arch/neck/circle of Willis has not ...

Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Correspondence to Dr Felipe C Albuquerque, c/o Neuroscience Publications ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Han-Dong Wang, Department of Neurosurgery, Jinling hospital, the First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; njhdwang{at}hotmail.com; ...

Background Flow diverters have revolutionized the treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Nevertheless, some aneurysms fail to occlude with flow diversion. The Prospective Study on Embolization of ...

1 Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Yifei Duan, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, ...

Background Large-bore aspiration catheters enabling greater flow rates and suction force for mechanical thrombectomy might improve outcomes in patients with stroke secondary to large-vessel occlusion.