Xavier Ducrocq

TL;DR: In this study of patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis of 60% or more, the rates of death and stroke at 1 and 6 months were lower with endarterectomy than with stenting.

TL;DR: Mechanical thrombectomy combined with standard intravenous thrombolysis improves functional independence in patients with acute cerebral ischaemia, with no evidence of increased mortality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied 148 subjects belonging to seven families by magnetic resonance imaging and genetic linkage analysis and found that all symptomatic subjects had prominent signal abnormalities on MRI with hyperintense lesions on T2-weighted images in the subcortical white matter and basal ganglia.

TL;DR: Age <50 years, good neurological grade, and hyperglycemia were all associated with an increased risk of cerebral vasospasm whereas treatment was not, and this provides a basis for future clinical prospective randomized trials comparing both treatments.

TL;DR: Estimated ischaemic core volume was independently associated with functional independence and functional improvement but did not modify the treatment benefit of endovascular thrombectomy over standard medical therapy for improved functional outcome.