Highlights:
- New research finds that each hour saved between acute ischaemic stroke symptom onset and initiating a mechanical thrombectomy procedure is associated with a 22–25% increase in the odds of achieving functional independence
- Neurointerventionists ‘can rarely recover payment’ for out-of-network thrombectomy under US No Surprises Act, according to a recent study
- Wim van Zwam (Maastricht, The Netherlands) and Joseph Broderick (Cincinnati, USA) discuss the latest breakthroughs in stroke thrombectomy, as well as outlining the procedure’s potential limitations and unanswered questions that remain
- PROFILE: Thanh N Nguyen (Boston, USA)
- CAROTID: Several highlights from the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) annual meeting (24–27 September, Kraków, Poland), including new data and in-depth debates on the respective roles of surgery and stenting
