Background and purpose Collateral blood flow to the affected cerebral territory in acute ischemic stroke may modify the effect of intravenous alteplase treatment (IVT) prior to endovascular treatment ...

Introduction External ventricular drain (EVD) placement is a life-saving neurosurgical procedure used to divert cerebrospinal fluid and reduce intracranial pressure in conditions such as subarachnoid ...

Background Mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke has undergone relevant technical improvements over recent years. However, distal emboli and incomplete reperfusion after ...

Background This study assessed caliber and flow changes of covered cortical middle cerebral artery (MCA) branches using the new Caliber-Flow Status Scale (CFSS), postoperative diffusion-weighted ...

Triage describes the assignment of resources based on where they can be best used, are most needed, or are most likely to achieve success. Triage is of particular importance in time-critical ...

Correspondence to Dr Justin F Fraser, Departments of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Radiology, and Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40536, USA; Jfr235{at}uky.edu Defining the ...

Correspondence to Dr Krishna C Joshi, Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Krishna_C_Joshi{at}rush.edu Background There is a paucity of data and a belief that ...

Background Half of patients who achieve successful recanalization following endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke experience poor functional outcome. We aim to investigate whether ...

Background Early literature on the Woven EndoBridge (WEB) device reported 80–90% adequate aneurysm occlusion but low complete occlusion (40–55%). It is uncertain whether residual or recurrent ...

Background Pipeline embolization device (PED) deployment combined with coil therapy for large complex intracranial aneurysms is effective and considered superior to PED deployment alone. However, the ...

Correspondence to Dr Yueqi Zhu, Department of Radiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China; zhuyueqi{at}hotmail.com; Dr Manning Wang; mnwang{at}fudan.edu ...

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 ...