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Editor’s column
313 Reflections on the lessons of the recent
endovascular stroke trials
R Gupta
Cover image: Diffusion-weighted MRI and
triphenyltetrazolium chloride stained sections
from a control animal and animals subjected
to 30 minutes and 120 minutes occlusions of
the right posterior cerebral artery.
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Commentary
314 Thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke:
an evidence-based treatment
D J Fiorella, K M Fargen, J Mocco, F Albuquerque,
J A Hirsch, M Chen, R Gupta, I Linfante,
W Mack, A Rai, R W Tarr
Standards
316 Embolectomy for stroke with emergent
large vessel occlusion (ELVO): report of
the Standards and Guidelines Committee
of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery
M V Jayaraman, M S Hussain, T Abruzzo,
B Albani, F C Albuquerque, M J Alexander,
S A Ansari, A S Arthur, B Baxter, K R Bulsara,
M Chen, J A Delgado-Almandoz, J F Fraser,
D V Heck, S W Hetts, M Kelly, S-K Lee,
T Leslie-Mawzi, R A McTaggart, P M Meyers,
C Prestigiacomo, G L Pride, A Patsalides,
R M Starke, R W Tarr, D Frei, P Rasmussen,
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Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional
Surgery (SNIS)
Volume 7 Issue 5 | JNIS May 2015
341 Unprotected carotid artery stenting in
symptomatic elderly patients: a single-center
experience
E Jimenez-Gomez, A C Sánchez, R O Fernández,
S V Alvarado, F Bravo-Rodriguez, F D Acosta
Hemorrhagic stroke
346 Methamphetamine use is an independent
predictor of poor outcome after aneurysmal
subarachnoid hemorrhage
K Moon, F C Albuquerque, M Mitkov,
A F Ducruet, D A Wilson, R W Crowley,
P Nakaji, C G McDougall
351 Modifying flow in the ACA–ACoA complex:
endovascular treatment option for wide-neck
internal carotid artery bifurcation aneurysms
E Nossek, D J Chalif, M Levine, A Setton
357 Tailoring platelet inhibition according to
multiple electrode aggregometry decreases
the rate of thrombotic complications after
intracranial flow-diverting stent implantation
I Oran, C Cinar, H Bozkaya, M Korkmaz
Ischemic stroke
322 Disposition to home or acute rehabilitation
is associated with a favorable clinical outcome
in the SENTIS trial
S R Belagaje, K Zander, L Thackeray, R Gupta
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326 Severity of leukoaraiosis, leptomeningeal
collaterals, and clinical outcomes after
intra-arterial therapy in patients with acute
ischemic stroke
D-V Giurgiutiu, A J Yoo, K Fitzpatrick,
Z Chaudhry, T Leslie-Mazwi, L H Schwamm,
N S Rost
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331 Outcomes of tailored angioplasty and/
or stenting for symptomatic intracranial
atherosclerosis: a prospective cohort study
after SAMMPRIS
Z Miao, L Song, D S Liebeskind, L Liu, N Ma,
Y Wang, D Mo, F Gao, X Zhao, K Dong,
D Zhang, P Gao
336 Carotid revascularization treatment is shifting
to low volume centers
W Brinjikji, D F Kallmes, G Lanzino, H J Cloft
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Basic science
363 A novel model of large vessel ischemic
stroke in rabbits: microcatheter occlusion
of the posterior cerebral artery
J D English, S W Hetts, A El-Ali, P Kolli,
L Do, M W Wilson, M Saeed
367 Quantitative comparison of hemodynamic
parameters from steady and transient CFD
simulations in cerebral aneurysms with focus
on the aneurysm ostium
C Karmonik, O Diaz, R Klucznik, R G Grossman,
Y J Zhang, G Britz, N Lv, Q Huang
Neuroimaging
373 Is long-term follow-up of adequately
coil-occluded ruptured cerebral aneurysms
always necessary? A single-center study
of recurrences after endovascular treatment
A M Mortimer, H Marsh, K Klimczak, D Joshi,
H Barton, R J Nelson, M D Bradley, S A Renowden
Volume 7 Issue 5 | JNIS May 2015
386 Diagnostic quality and accuracy of low
dose 3D-DSA protocols in the evaluation
of intracranial aneurysms
M S Pearl, C Torok, Z Katz, S A Messina,
J Blasco, R J Tamargo, J Huang, R Leigh,
S Zeiler, M Radvany, T Ehtiati, P Gailloud
Electronic pages
e17 Delayed stenosis following stentriever
use in acute stroke intervention
J J Macke, M P Bellew, F R Hellinger Jr
e18 Rare presentation of intracranial vascular
blowout after tumor resection and
radiation therapy
A Alaraj, M Behbahani, T Valyi-Nagy,
N Aardsma, V A Aletich
e19 Endovascular coil retrieval using
a TrevoProVue stentriever
M R Kabbani, A Smith, M Leider
380 Radiation dose analysis of large and giant
internal carotid artery aneurysm treatment
with the pipeline embolization device versus
traditional coiling techniques
G P Colby, L-M Lin, N Nundkumar, B Jiang,
J Huang, R J Tamargo, A L Coon
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