Tag: neurointervention
Neurointerventionists ‘can rarely recover payment’ for out-of-network thrombectomy under US No...
A new study has found that neurointerventionists have “essentially no financially viable access to payment recovery” through the US No Surprises Act (NSA) for...
Frontiers in paediatric INR: addressing challenges and embracing opportunities
In a guest piece for NeuroNews, Carmen Parra-Fariñas (Toronto, Canada) discusses some of the key considerations that distinguish the growing, dedicated field of paediatric...
Christophe Cognard
Throughout his life and career, Christophe Cognard (Toulouse, France) has always sought to help advance the interventional neuroradiology (INR) space, and make the management...
The debate: general anaesthesia or conscious sedation in stroke thrombectomy?
While the recently presented SEGA trial and many other studies have attempted to establish which of the two prevalent methods for medically inducing a...
Spryte Medical receives Breakthrough Device designation from US FDA for neuro...
Spryte Medical has announced that its neuro optical coherence tomography (nOCT) technology has been granted Breakthrough Device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
Recent breakthroughs in cSDH intervention may lead to “HERMES-style collaborative”
Following their initial presentation earlier this year, two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) indicating positive outcomes with middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolisation in chronic subdural...
ESMINT issues ‘call for experts’ to streamline EU medical device certification
The European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ESMINT) has issued a call for experts in neurointerventions to work with notified bodies over the...
Debates, case carousel and European first head up CX carotid and...
The programme for the 2024 Charing Cross (CX) symposium (23–25 April, London, UK) will see the topics of acute stroke care, carotid disease and...
CX 2024: New technologies and “special cases” underpin carotid and acute...
With a renewed focus on challenging cases, novel technologies and, overall, the most pressing issues in carotid treatments and acute stroke care, the 2024...
Reduced complications and patient satisfaction among key benefits of radial access
Transradial access, whereby the vasculature is navigated to via the radial artery in the wrist, has been a topic of much debate in the...
New AVM intervention findings “refute” ARUBA complication rates and may elicit...
New data from an analysis of patients who would have been eligible for the ARUBA trial—which previously indicated medical management is likely favourable over...
J Mocco
As president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS), endovascular neurosurgeon J Mocco (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA) has...
Imperative announces data demonstrating benefits of Zoom RDL system in neurointerventional...
Imperative Care has announced the publication of early clinical data in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (JNIS) from a single-centre evaluation of the Zoom RDL radial...
Route 92 announces 80th patent for Monopoint operating platform
Route 92 Medical has today announced the issuance of the company’s 80th global patent for its Monopoint operating platform. Route 92 claims this is...
First human cases performed with high-frequency imaging offering “unprecedented potential” in...
Gentuity has today announced the first human use of the Vis-M high-frequency optical coherence tomography (HF-OCT) imaging system and probe. As per a company...
Shelley Renowden
Through her many years as a consultant neuroradiologist at the North Bristol NHS Trust (Bristol, UK), as well as organising the European Course in...
Isil Saatci
Isil Saatci has been practising interventional neuroradiology (INR) in Ankara, Turkey for almost the entirety of her career—initially at Hacettepe University, where she also...
Abnormal DW-MRI foci “significantly more frequent” with radial versus femoral access
A prospective analysis of 200 consecutive diagnostic cerebral angiograms has indicated that the number of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) restriction foci was “significantly...
J Mocco becomes 27th Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery president
J Mocco, an endovascular neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai in New York City, USA has been named the 2022 president of the Society of NeuroInterventional...
Robotics, AI and other innovations in stroke and aneurysm care on...
Specialists from around the world will gather at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 19th annual meeting (25–29 July, Toronto, Canada) next week to discuss...
Michael Chen
Michael Chen—a neurointerventionist and professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA—speaks to NeuroNews to provide insight on...
Why robotics holds the key to the future of stroke treatment
Vitor Pereira and Nicole Cancelliere (St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada) outline recent breakthroughs in the deployment of robotics for neurointerventional procedures and discuss future...
Episode 4: Potential benefits offered by robotics must be factored into...
In the fourth and final instalment of a NeuroNews video series, Jeffrey Saver (University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA)...
Episode 3: Is patient harm the most significant ethical challenge in...
Jeffrey Saver (University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA) details what he feels is the “greatest concern” when it comes...
Episode 2: Why conflicts of interest may pose problems for neurointerventionists...
Jeffrey Saver (University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA) highlights financial benefits, the phenomenon of ‘training time bias’, and a...
Episode 1: Informed patient consent and other pressing ethical issues in...
In the first instalment of a four-part video series on NeuroNews, Jeffrey Saver (University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA)...
The pros and cons of radial access in neurointerventional surgery
As the adoption of radial access across the world of neurointerventional surgery begins to pick up pace, Pascal Jabbour and Kareem El Naamani (Thomas...
Lack of evidence among challenges that must be overcome to realise...
In spite of the clinical successes observed to date, a lack of high-level safety and efficacy evidence, among other current challenges and limitations, must...
LINNC 2021: ESCAPE-NEXT trial may bring “dream” of combining neuroprotection with...
At this year’s LINNC Paris Course (14–16 September, Paris, France and virtual), audiences heard that the ESCAPE-NEXT trial (sponsored by NoNO Inc.), which has already started enrolling...
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....
Michael Chen becomes 26th president of SNIS
Michael Chen, a neurointerventionist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, USA, has been named the president of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS)...
SNIS 2021: Remote stroke interventions raise several unique ethical challenges
At the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s 18th annual meeting (SNIS; July 26–29 2021, Colorado Springs, USA and virtual), Jeffrey Saver, professor of Neurology at...
William Mack becomes 25th SNIS president
The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has announced that William Mack (Los Angeles, USA) has become the new president of the organisation. The announcement...
Ghana making giant strides: Neurointerventional practice in sub-Saharan Africa
Since founding the Ghana Society of Interventional Radiologists in November 2015, Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie has been working to establish the offering of minimally invasive,...
