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 Athos Patsalides, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medine, New York, NY 10065, USA; atp9002{at}med.cornell.edu Aims We ...

2 Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy 3 Department of Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, ‘Santo Spirito’ Hospital, Pescara, Italy ...

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 Dr Anna Andriana Kyselyova, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany; a.kyselyova{at}uke.de ...

Methods This is a retrospective, site adjudicated, multicenter study on consecutive patients with large vessel occlusion treated with the Walrus BGC. Baseline characteristics, procedural outcomes and ...

Correspondence to Mr Noel van Horn, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; no.vanhorn{at}uke.de Background ...

1 University Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Eike I Piechowiak, University Institute of ...

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 Prior studies evaluating the Wingspan stent for treatment of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease have included patients with a spectrum of both on-label and off-label ...

Background Endovascular recanalization for medically refractory non-acute middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion remains a clinical dilemma, and limited data are available. We report the multicenter ...

Correspondence to Dr Maxim Mokin, Department of Neurosurgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33606 USA; mokin{at}health.usf.edu Background The amount of force applied on a device is an ...