Highlights:
- New data comparing first-line contact aspiration versus stent retrievers in basilar occlusion stroke, and other late-breaking updates from the 2025 World Stroke Congress (WSC; 22–24 October, Barcelona, Spain)
- Major stories from this year’s European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT) annual congress (3–5 September, Marseille, France), from optimal techniques in cancer-related stroke to the minimally invasive management of chronic total occlusions (CTOs)
- Guest articles from experts in the neurointerventional field spanning several topics, including the use of post-endovascular therapy (EVT) thrombolytics, different approaches to middle meningeal artery embolisation (MMAe), surgery’s diminishing role in brain aneurysm treatment, and the “cognitive dimension” of dural arteriovenous fistula (dAVF) care
- Preliminary findings on a novel, in-utero embolisation procedure for foetal vein of Galen malformation (VOGM)
- PROFILE: Paul Bhogal (London, UK)
