Rishi Gupta

TL;DR: A man in his late 50s who presented with recurrent vertebrobasilar ischemic events despite maximal medical treatment in the setting of a complete left vertebral artery ostial occlusion was successfully treated with a drug-eluting stent.

TL;DR: Three different schemes for measuring percent stenosis of an occluded artery are all valid but may produce different results, suggesting the choise of method for measurement is less important than consistency of application.

TL;DR: ‘Target: Stroke’, a national quality improvement initiative of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association which aims to increase the timeliness of intravenous tPA administration, sees tremendous efforts in developing primary stroke centers and implementing strategies based on the development of these centers, but there is much room for improvement.

TL;DR: The recently published article by Abruzzo et al describes late midterm clinical outcomes in patients treated with basilar artery stenting and angioplasty, the first description of late-midterm follow up for patients.

TL;DR: The question is whether the widespread availability, ease of access and time savings justify using non-contrast CT (supplemented by ASPECTS) as ‘good enough’ to select patients when compared to advanced imaging modalities that may be more specific to detecting ischemia.