Tag: neuroendovascular

Michihiro Tanaka

Michihiro Tanaka

Michihiro Tanaka, director of Neurosurgery and Neuroendovascular Surgery at Kameda Medical Center (Chiba, Japan), speaks to NeuroNews to discuss the factors that have shaped...

First-pass effect or rule of three? Definition of procedural success remains...

While a number of companies in the neurovascular space have become increasingly focused on the ‘first-pass effect’ in mechanical thrombectomy treatments, many major clinical...

Microvention celebrates 25 years in neuroendovascular technologies with ‘Patient’s Day’

Microvention, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terumo Corporation, today celebrated its 25-year anniversary in the neuroendovascular technologies industry. The capstone of Microvention’s 25th anniversary celebration...

CorPath GRX robot demonstrates safety and effectiveness in neurovascular aneurysm treatment

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 robotic-assisted neurovascular...

SNIS 2022: Neuroendovascular robotics could improve safety of complex procedures

Stroke surgery and other neuroendovascular procedures could be made safer and easier through robotics, according to research presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s...

Few cases and short timeframe required to overcome learning curve with...

A retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database has found that robot-assisted carotid artery stenting (CAS) is both safe and effective. Writing in Neurosurgical...
neuroendovascular teleproctoring

Novel teleproctoring platform successfully used for neuroendovascular fellowship training

A novel augmented reality (AR) platform (Proximie) has been successfully used to teleproctor a neuroendovascular fellow during complex interventional and diagnostic procedures. That is...

“Welcome and exciting”: Evidence mounts in favour of flow diversion technologies

Multiple pieces of clinical research supporting the use of flow diverter devices to treat intracranial aneurysms have come to light so far in 2021....

Black stroke patients undergo neuroendovascular surgery less often than white patients,...

Black patients with stroke are less likely than white patients to undergo a potentially lifesaving, minimally-invasive thrombectomy procedure to remove blood clots from arteries...
stroke care centres

Race among factors that predict how quickly patients get to stroke...

Race, in combination with other factors, predicted how quickly individuals with stroke got to care centres to receive necessary neuroendovascular surgery, including thrombectomy, according...
COVID-19

COVID-19: Lessons learnt from Italy, China and the USA

A webinar hosted by the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) on 2 April brought together neurointerventionalists and endovascular neurosurgeons from Italy, China, and the...
New York COVID-19

New York City in the age of COVID-19: A Neuroendovascular experience

Amid the chaos of the pandemic, it is becoming increasingly difficult, "if not impossible", to care both critically-ill COVID-19 sufferers and non-COVID patients simultaneously,...
endovascular therapy

Superior clinical outcomes for endovascular therapy candidates triaged directly to a...

For patients with emergent large vessel occlusion (LVO) eligible for endovascular therapy, prehospital triage to a more distant comprehensive stroke centre (CSC) compared with...
neuroendovascular

Transradial access is safe and effective for neuroendovascular procedures

In the largest cohort study to date, new research from Jefferson (Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA) demonstrates that transradial surgery, done...