Tag: distal occlusions
Dedicated devices support progress towards “next frontier” for stroke thrombectomy
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In light of a recent publication detailing the safe and effective use...
Is thrombectomy set to become the standard of care for medium...
With multiple large clinical trials currently underway to assess thrombectomy treatments in patients with medium vessel occlusion (MeVO) stroke, Johanna Ospel (Calgary, Canada) takes...
Vision recovery among potential benefits of endovascular therapy in PCA occlusion...
A multicentre study presented at the recent European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC; 24–26 May, Munich, Germany) has found that vision recovery and an increased...
Thrombectomy appears comparable to medical management in treating ACA occlusion stroke
Mechanical thrombectomy appears to be a safe and technically feasible treatment option for ischaemic strokes caused by primary isolated anterior cerebral artery (ACA) occlusions...
DISTAL trial will elucidate non-dominant M2, M3 and PCA occlusions but...
A recent update on the DISTAL randomised controlled trial (RCT)—which was delivered at the Barts Research and Advanced Interventional Neuroradiology (BRAIN) conference (5–8 December...
Imperative Care announces positive, single-centre data on distal occlusion stroke treatment
Imperative Care recently announced that new data evaluating the utility of its Zoom stroke solution were presented at the 16th congress of the World...
Rapid Medical begins enrolment in DISTALS trial treating new ischaemic stroke...
Rapid Medical announced today the enrolment of the first patient in the DISTALS study, which the company claims is the first-ever US Food and...
Case report indicates 3D black blood vessel wall imaging can predict...
The early findings from a case report have highlighted the potential held by 3D black blood vessel wall post-contrast imaging to predict the outcomes...
Novel tandem stent thrombectomy technique a “safe and effective” rescue treatment
A novel tandem stent thrombectomy technique “seems to be a safe and effective” rescue treatment for acute large vessel occlusion (LVO) that is resistant...
The 1st International Distal Thrombectomy Summit called for a need to...
The 1st International Distal Thrombectomy Summit took place in North Italy, 14–15 June, 2019. According to a press release, the purpose of the meeting...
