Introduction Refractory headache is a common and frequently disabling disorder, affecting 2–12 million patients each year in ...

1 Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 2 Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA 3 ...

Introduction Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) is a potentially reversible form of dementia and one of the most common forms of adult hydrocephalus. Treatment has involved ...

Correspondence to Dr Sunil A Sheth, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas-77030, USA; Sunil.a.sheth{at}uth.tmc.edu Background Endovascular thrombectomy ...

Objective Our study aims to introduce a novel interventional treatment strategy for the management of chronic occlusion of the internal carotid artery (CO-ICA) using a specially designed thrombectomy ...

Correspondence to Dr Bradley A Gross, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; grossb2{at}upmc.edu Background Case series have described ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Charles Matouk, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; charles.matouk{at}yale.edu This is an open access article distributed in ...

Background Untreated ischemic stroke can lead to severe morbidity and death, and as such, there are numerous endovascular blood-clot removal (thrombectomy) devices approved for human use. Human ...

Background Liquid embolic agents (LEAs) such as ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) are utilized for middle meningeal artery embolization (MMAE) for chronic subdural hematomas (cSDH). LEAs may be ...

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 Direct aspiration thrombectomy is a well-established method for mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke. Yet, the influence of aspiration catheter internal diameter (ID) on ...