Background Whether thrombectomy alone is equally as effective as intravenous alteplase
plus thrombectomy remains controversial. We aimed to determine whether thrombectomy …

Background and Purpose— There is some controversy on the association of the National
Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score to predict arterial occlusion on MR …

The goal of acute stroke treatment with intravenous thrombolysis or endovascular
recanalization techniques is to rescue the penumbral tissue. Therefore, knowing the factors that …

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is caused by loss of CSF at the level of the spine.
The most frequent symptom of this disorder is orthostatic headache, with the headache …

Background and Purpose— Stent placement has been applied in small case series as a
rescue therapy in combination with different thrombolytic agents, percutaneous balloon …

Importance Various signs may be observed on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in
patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). However, the lack of a …

Background and Purpose— Five randomized controlled trials have consistently shown that
mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in addition to best medical treatment (±intravenous tissue-…

Simple clinical scores to predict large vessel occlusion (LVO) in acute ischemic stroke would
be helpful to triage patients in the prehospital phase. We assessed the ability of various …

Background Whether pretreatment with intravenous thrombolysis prior to mechanical
thrombectomy (IVT+MTE) adds additional benefit over direct mechanical thrombectomy (dMTE) in …

Objective: To visualize and treat spinal dural CSF leaks in all patients with intractable
spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) who underwent spinal microsurgical exploration. …