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Ischemic Stroke

• Original research: Futile inter-hospital transfer for mechanical thrombectomy in a semi-rural context: analysis of a 6-year prospective registry (16 October, 2018)

  Denis Sablot, Adrian Dumitrana, Franck Leibinger, Khaled Khlifa, Bénédicte Fadat, Geoffroy Farouil, Thibaut Allou, Francis Coll, Julie Mas, Philippe Smadja, Adelaïde Ferraro-Allou, Isabelle Mourand, Anaïs Dutray, Maxime Tardieu, Snejana Jurici, Jean-Marie Bonnec, Nadège Olivier, Sandra Cardini, Frédérique Damon, Laurène Van Damme, Sabine Aptel, Nicolas Gaillard, Ana-Maria Marquez, Ludovic Nguyen Them, Majo Ibanez, Caroline Arquizan, Vincent Costalat, Alain Bonafe
• Original research: Outcomes of endovascular thrombectomy in the elderly: a ‘real-world’ multicenter study (2 November, 2018) Free

  Ali Alawieh, Robert M Starke, Arindam Rano Chatterjee, Aquilla Turk, Reade De Leacy, Ansaar T Rai, Kyle Fargen, Peter Kan, Jasmeet Singh, Lukas Vilella, Fábio A Nascimento, Travis M Dumont, David McCarthy, Alejandro M Spiotta
• Review: Endovascular mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke in young children (6 March, 2019)

  Lisa R Sun, Ryan J Felling, Monica Smith Pearl
• Original research: Simplified selection criteria for patients with longer or unknown time to treatment predict good outcome after mechanical thrombectomy (27 October, 2018) Free

  Simon Nagel, Christian Herweh, Johannes Alex Rolf Pfaff, Simon Schieber, Silvia Schönenberger, Markus A Möhlenbruch, Martin Bendszus, Peter Arthur Ringleb
• Original research: Impact of landmark endovascular stroke trials on logistical performance measures: a before-and-after evaluation of real-world data from a regional stroke system of care (19 October, 2018)

  Alexander Marco Kollikowski, Franco Amaya, Guido Stoll, Wolfgang Müllges, Michael Klaus Schuhmann, Mirko Pham
• Original research: Drug-coated balloons for the treatment of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis: initial experience and follow-up outcome (18 October, 2018)

  Ju Han, Jun Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Jinping Zhang, Yun Song, Wei Zhao, Meimei Zheng, Lili Sun, Wei Wang
• Original research: Arterial occlusions increase the risk of in-stent restenosis after vertebral artery ostium stenting (18 October, 2018)

  Jingzhi Li, Yang Hua, Laurence Needleman, Flemming Forsberg, John R Eisenbray, Zhaojun Li, Ran Liu, Xiaojie Tian, Liqun Jiao, Ji-Bin Liu