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84 e-Letters

  • Letter to the Editor
    Peter Tuchin

    To the editor,

    We would like to raise some issues regarding the Moon et al article "Stroke prevention by endovascular treatment of carotid and vertebral artery dissections", recently published in Neurointerventional Surgery.1 We commend the authors for conducting research in the important area of cervical artery dissection. Their study confirms that cervical artery dissection is a very rare condition, with the...

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  • Comment on “Delayed enhancing lesions after coil embolization of aneurysms: clinical experience and benchtop analyses”

    We read with interest the article entitled: “Delayed enhancing lesions after coil embolization of aneurysms: clinical experience and benchtop analyses” by Oh et al [1]. This interesting case series deals with a recently described complication of intracranial endovascular procedures [2–8]: delayed enhancing lesions (DELs), also known as NICE (non-ischemic cerebral enhancing) lesions [8]. This rare complication consists in delayed appearance of cortical leptomeningeal enhancement associated with vasogenic subcortical edema [8]. The authors describe 3 more cases, in addition to the 19 previously reported [8]. We congratulate the authors for their efforts to understand the mechanism of this rare complication by performing benchtop tests.
    Numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain this complication.
    First, an allergic reaction to nickel has been suggested [4,7]. In a series we recently published in Neuroradiology [8], we did not find any allergic reaction to the devices used for the embolization of the patients who presented NICE lesions. The fact that, in the series of Oh et al [1], none of the three patients had an allergic background, seems to confirm the absence of any relationship between these lesions and allergy.
    The second hypothesis is a reaction to foreign bodies (catheter coating) released during the embolization. We do believe that, according to our experience [8] and to the data of the literature [2,3,5,6], these lesions are more likely to...

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  • Re:Comment on The Medina Embolic Device: early clinical experience from a single center
    Marta Aguilar Perez

    We would like to thank our colleagues for reading our publication and for the thorough review of the paper. We greatly look forward to reading their own experience and believe that it will add substantially to the literature on this new and interesting device.

    At the outset we would like to make it clear that we stand by our initial comment in saying that we believe the combination of a MED and other devices,...

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  • Thrombectomy in low NIHSS stroke - a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
    Anselm Angermaier

    We read with great interest the article of Haussen et al. 1 outlining the problem of identifying patients with minor stroke symptoms (low NIHSS) despite proximal vessel occlusion who should undergo thrombectomy. Intension-to-treat analysis showed significantly higher reduction of stroke severity in the primary thrombectomy group compared to the medical group. But more interestingly, per-protocol analysis revealed a high propo...

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  • Use of flat panal angio CT for navigation through a stent
    Gerhard Schroth

    Thank you for your technical considerations regarding stent in stent placement without hooking the first stent.

    Use of 3 D Roadmap may be helpful. Moreover, following passage of the microwire, reconstructions of a second flat panel angioCT with the microwire in place clearly outlines the relationship between the microwire and the struts of the first stent, especially if reconstructions perpendicular to the orientati...

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  • Trying to catch the "ghost ischemic core": CT perfusion versus DWI
    Nicola Morelli

    Dear Editor, We read with great interest the original article by Boned S. et al. (1) which demonstrates that CT perfusion (CTP) may overestimate the final infarct core, especially in the early time window. Interestingly, the authors introduce the "ghost infarct core" concept in ischemic stroke, referring to that particular condition where the final infarct core at follow up imaging may be smaller than the one observed on...

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  • Comment on The Medina Embolic Device: early clinical experience from a single center
    Frederic Clarencon

    Frederic Clarencon, MD, PhD 1, 2, Nader-Antoine Sourour, MD 1 *

    1. Department of Interventional Neuroradiology. Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.

    APHP. Paris France. 2. Paris VI University Pierre et Marie Curie. Paris. France

    * Corresponding author

    We read with great interest the case series entitled: "The Medina Embolic Device: early clinical experience from a single center" by Aguilar Per...

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  • Comments on "Prevalence of dural venous sinus stenosis and hypoplasia in a generalized population"
    Roberto De Simone

    Dear Editor, we read with great interest the paper by Durst at al. [1], aimed to define the anatomy of cerebral dural sinus system in the generalized population, evaluating the prevalence of sinus venous stenosis and hypoplasia. This condition is considered of pathogenetic relevance in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) [2-4] and has been also associated to chronic and, mostly, to refractory headaches [5-7]. We a...

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  • Letter by Parthasarathy et al. regarding article, "Unwanted detachment of the Solitaire device during mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke ".
    Vipul Gupta

    Letter by Parthasarathy et al. regarding article, "Unwanted detachment of the Solitaire device during mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke ".

    Rajsrinivas Parthasarathy MRCP (UK) Neurology, Vipul Gupta MD, Gaurav Goel MD DM

    Department of Neurointerventional surgery, Institute of Neuroscience, Medanta, the Medicity, Gurgaon, India.

    Title word count: 14

    Word Count: Abstract: 1...

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  • Social Media Metrics: A New Way of Measuring Scientific Impact
    Andres M Lozano

    We read with great interest the article by Fargen et al(1), which reports the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery (JNIS) experience in social media. The journal recently implemented a three-pronged social media strategy, along with the hiring of dedicated social media staffing, to enhance their online viewership. Since implementing this marketing approach, JNIS has had significantly more website accessions to their pe...

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