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Multicenter evaluation of mechanical thrombectomy for distal medium vessel occlusions with National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Scores ≥ 6 and ≤ 6
While mechanical thrombectomy is considered standard of care for large vessel occlusions, scientific evidence to support treatment for distal and medium vessel occlusions remains scarce.
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Preoperative Direct Puncture Embolization Using a Nonadhesive Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol (EVOH) Liquid Embolic Agent for Head and Neck Paragangliomas
This retrospective study aimed to assess the safety and technical efficacy of preoperative direct puncture embolization using a nonadhesive ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer-based liquid embolic agent (L...
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Open AccessHug sign in intraprocedural cone-beam-CT to predict short-term response to combined treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma
Combined treatment of ablation and chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma represents a promising therapy to increase treatment efficacy and improve patient survival. The “hug sign” is a recently introd...
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Outcomes with General Anesthesia Compared to Conscious Sedation for Endovascular Treatment of Medium Vessel Occlusions: Results of an International Multicentric Study
Optimal anesthetic strategy for the endovascular treatment of stroke is still under debate. Despite scarce data concerning anesthetic management for medium and distal vessel occlusions (MeVOs) some centers emp...
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Use of the pRESET LITE thrombectomy device in combined approach for medium vessel occlusions: A multicenter evaluation
Our purpose was to assess the efficacy and safety of the pRESET LITE stent retriever (Phenox, Bochum, Germany), designed for medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients with a primar...
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Open AccessPost-operative segmental cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: risk factors, clinical implications, and therapeutic considerations
Cerebral venous sinus thromboses (CVSTs) are rare complications of neurosurgical interventions and their management remains controversial as most of cases appear clinically silent. Here, we analyzed our instit...
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Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: A Retrospective Analysis of Prognostic Factors and Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in the Light of the Recent Diagnostic and Technical Refinements
Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) are abnormal connections between the meningeal branches of segmental arteries and a radiculomedullary veins that result in a progressive myelopathy thanks to perimed...
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Open AccessEndovascular Treatment of Cavernous Sinus Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas. Institutional Series, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Endovascular treatment represents the first-line therapy for cavernous sinus dural arteriovenous fistulas (CS-dAVF); however, different approaches and embolic agents as well as occlusion rates, complications a...
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Mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke due to large vessel occlusion in the anterior circulation and low baseline National Institute of Health Stroke Scale score: a multicenter retrospective matched analysis
The benefit of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to large vessel occlusion (LVO) and baseline mild neurological symptoms remains unclear. The purpose of this study w...
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Retrospective application of risk scores to ruptured intracranial aneurysms: would they have predicted the risk of bleeding?
As the incidental diagnosis of unruptured intracranial aneurysms has been increasing, several scores were developed to predict risk of rupture and growth to guide the management choice. We retrospectively appl...
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Longitudinal study of interventional radiology activity in a large metropolitan Italian tertiary care hospital: how the COVID-19 pandemic emergency has changed our activity
To retrospectively analyze interventional radiology (IR) activity changes in the COVID-19 era and to describe how to safely and effectively reorganize IR activity.
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Ultrasonography of the pediatric spleen: a pictorial essay
In infants and children, the spleen is involved in many pathological processes, whether those processes are isolated or related to systemic diseases. Pathology of the pediatric spleen includes congenital anoma...
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Spinal cord ultrasonography of the newborn
Ultrasound represents the first-line survey for the assessment of spinal cord development abnormalities. In fact, within 6 months of life, the non-ossification of neuronal arcs provides an excellent acoustic w...
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The role of cervical color Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis of brain death
Brain death (BD) is defined as the irreversible destruction of all brain functions. It is usually diagnosed through a clinical examination, but in certain circumstances, ancillary examinations (such as digital...
