TY - JOUR T1 - Commentary on ’ADAPT FAST study: a direct aspiration first pass technique for acute stroke thrombectomy' JF - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery JO - J NeuroIntervent Surg SP - i3 LP - i3 DO - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2018-014088 VL - 10 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Michael Chen Y1 - 2018/07/01 UR - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/10/Suppl_1/i3.abstract N2 - Perhaps in some part a response to the pessimism surrounding publication of three negative stroke thrombectomy studies in 2013, neurointerventionalists from the Medical University of South Carolina fortunately persisted in studying how to improve the technique. The ’ADAPT-FAST' study,1 published online in February 2014, is the most highly cited paper in the Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery’s 10-year history.1 Following the initial single center report,2 the follow-up multicenter ADAPT-FAST study reported favorable technical and clinical outcomes with direct aspiration using exclusively a large bore catheter. The microcatheter was no longer merely … ER -