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 ...

Background Malignant gliomas continue to have a poor clinical outcome with available therapies. In the past few years, new targeted biologic therapies have been studied, with promising results.

Background Poor vessel wall apposition of flow diverter (FD) stents poses risks for stroke-related complications when treating intracranial aneurysms, necessitating long-term surveillance imaging. To ...

2 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA Correspondence to Rui Feng, Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustav Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Ju Han, Department of Neurology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China; hanjujack{at}163.com Background The optimal treatment ...

Correspondence to Dr Yagiz Ugur Yolcu, Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN 55902, USA; yolcu.yagiz{at}mayo.edu Introduction Management approaches for intracranial ...

Background Flow disruption with the WEB is an innovative endovascular approach for treatment of wide-neck bifurcation aneurysms. Initial studies have shown a low complication rate with good efficacy.

Background Flow diverters have been widely used in clinical practice for more than a decade. However, most outcome data are limited to 1 year timepoints. This study aims to offer meta-analysis data on ...

Background Revascularization after endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke is measured by the Thrombolysis In Cerebral Infarction (TICI) scale, yet variability exists in scale definitions. We ...

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 ...

1 Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 2 Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, ...