These articles have been hand-picked by NeuroNews‘ editors. They offer insights and perspectives on the latest trends, and best practices, within the neurovascular community, and we hope they will be of interest to you as well.
Hanaa Dakour-Aridi Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes, including reduced in-hospital stroke and mortality risks, compared to other medication regimens in carotid…
Levansri Makalanda Alongside his colleagues at the Barts Health NHS Trust, Levansri Makalanda (London, UK) was responsible for setting up the second ever 24/7 mechanical…
A recent addition to Europe’s flow diversion market—the Derivo 2 embolisation device (DED2; Acandis)—has demonstrated promise in a small-scale, multicentre study, providing a safe and…
Amanda Baker In the latter stages of 2022, the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) released a position statement advocating pregnancy and parental leave policies in…
Scientia Vascular has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of the Aristotle Colossus macrowire. The company claims that this device is…
The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) has released its first global analysis of access to mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of large vessel…
Chung-Hao Lee A team from the University of Oklahoma (Norman, USA) has embarked on a five-year research project with the intention of designing a device…
Tareq Kass-Hout Physicians in the USA have published details of—to their knowledge—the “first reported use” of the Indigo aspiration system (Penumbra) to treat cerebral venous…
Tao Wang The initial findings from a recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) do not support the addition of extracranial to intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery to…
Zhongrong Miao presenting at ISC 2023 A randomised trial has found mechanical thrombectomy procedures performed within 24 hours of symptom onset to be more effective…
Lukas Meyer Mechanical thrombectomy appears to be a safe and technically feasible treatment option for ischaemic strokes caused by primary isolated anterior cerebral artery (ACA)…
Perfuze has secured its first product clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company’s Millipede 088 access catheter. The first US…
Amrou Sarraj presenting at ISC 2023 An international clinical study has found that patients experiencing a ‘large’ stroke—characterised by a greater infarct-core volume on imaging—had…
Eva Mistry presenting at ISC 2023 The administration of medications to lower systolic blood pressure in acute ischaemic stroke patients who have undergone a successful…
Preset device Phenox, a Wallaby Medical company, has announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its Preset thrombectomy device for the…
Marc Ribó presenting at ISC 2023 ApTOLL, a neuroprotectant medication intended to shield the brain from tissue damage, has been linked to reduced death and…
Gaultier Marnat Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) prior to a mechanical thrombectomy procedure could result in better functional outcomes than thrombectomy alone in stroke patients with M2…
Hans-Henning Eckstein The external validity—in other words, the transferability to real-world clinical practice—of contemporary randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating carotid artery stenosis interventions “varies considerably”,…
Jeremy Heit (L), Gautam Adusumilli A meta-analysis of recent basilar artery occlusion trials—including ATTENTION and BAOCHE—has further indicated the potential benefits held by endovascular therapy…
Dianne van Dam-Nolen A systematic review and meta-analysis have demonstrated “convincing evidence” that sex differences exist in carotid atherosclerosis, with all types of plaque features—including…
Infinity Neuro announced today that its Inspira aspiration catheters have received CE-mark approval and are now commercially available in Europe. This is the first offering from…
CELLO II balloon guide catheter The CELLO II balloon guide catheter (Fuji Systems Corporation) has received 510(k) premarket approval from the US Food and Drug…
Senior author Dominic Howard A newly published meta-analysis of individual patient data has found that older patients with symptomatic carotid disease are likely to benefit…
Imperative Care announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalised 510(k) clearance of its Zoom RDL radial access system—the company’s latest…
L to R: Geoffrey Colby, Wi Jin Kim, Milan Samarage A transmural approach for accessing the perivascular tissues of the cervical carotid artery has been…
Sarah Power Permanent intracranial stenting offers a feasible, safe ‘bailout’ option following a failed mechanical thrombectomy procedure. This was the concluding message delivered recently by…
Ali Kordzadeh A prospective study has demonstrated the potential feasibility, applicability and accuracy held by artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of carotid artery disease…
Robert Stern LuSeed Vascular has announced that Robert Stern, an experienced medical device executive and investor, has been nominated as the vice chairman of the…
Contego Medical has announced that enrolment of the PERFORMANCE II clinical trial has been completed. PERFORMANCE II is intended to evaluate the safety and effectiveness…
Hanaa Dakour Aridi takes to the MVSS 2022 podium Researchers led by a vascular team in Indianapolis found that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) remains the most-used…
Vascular device company iVascular has announced the expansion of its therapeutic areas with the launch of a new neurovascular pipeline, having gained CE-mark approval for…
Mohamad Syafeeq Faeez Md Noh Following the publication of a case report in Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, researchers from Malaysia have indicated that the…
Vesalio has announced EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) certification of its product lines—achieving this “significantly ahead” of its May 2023 deadline, according to a company…
Tilman Reiff Five-year outcomes of a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) indicate that carotid endarterectomy (CEA) or carotid artery stenting (CAS) are not superior to…
Jens Fiehler Achieving clot retrieval with the fewest possible number of passes is critical in mechanical thrombectomy, and may even hold greater importance than how…
CorPath GRX system Corindus, a Siemens Healthineers company, announced today the recent presentation of results from a “first-of-its-kind” study demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of…
Silk Road Medical has announced enrolment of the first patient in ROADSTER 3, which the company claims is the the first prospective, multicentre, single-arm study…
Shahram Majidi presenting at SNIS 2022 Following the first endovascular implantation of Synchron’s Stentrode brain-computer interface (BCI) device in the USA, physicians have highlighted the…
Christopher White (Credit: Ochsner Health) Research from Ochsner Health (New Orleans, USA) published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) is likely to…
A new report released by the UK Stroke Association warns that, if thrombectomy rates remain at 2020/21 levels, a total of 47,112 stroke patients in…
Colleen Flanagan The results of an analysis of nearly 2,000 carotid endarterectomies (CEAs) “challenge the notion” that patients benefit significantly from the current postoperative surveillance…
The risk of having a future stroke caused by asymptomatic carotid stenosis is “so low” that most patients with this condition could potentially be treated…
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