Mohammed Salman Shazeeb, Viraj Moholkar, Robert M King, Srinivasan Vedantham, Zeynep Vardar, Afif Kraitem, Clifford Lindsay, Vania Anagnostakou, Jasmeet Singh, Francesco Massari, Katyucia de Macedo Rodrigues, Varun Naragum, Ajit S Puri, Sarena Carniato, Matthew J Gounis, Anna Luisa Kühn
BACKGROUND: Diagnosing and treating acute ischemic stroke patients within a narrow timeframe is challenging. Time needed to access the occluded vessel and initiate thrombectomy is dictated by the availability of information regarding vascular anatomy and trajectory. Absence of such information potentially impacts device selection, procedure success, and stroke outcomes. While the cervical vessels allow neurointerventionalists to navigate devices to the occlusion site, procedures are often encumbered due to tortuous pathways...
May 29, 2023: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia