Endovascular Management of Ischemic Stroke: A Case-based Approach

Endovascular Management of Ischemic Stroke: A Case-Based Approach
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I Evolution of Endovascular Management
	1 Intra-arterial Tissue Plasminogen Activator: The First Step
	2 Transcatheter MERCI Clot Retrieval: The Early Generation
	3 Penumbra Clot Aspiration Technique: The Dark Days
	4 Trevo Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Light on the Horizon
	5 Solitaire Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy: Building the Evidence
Part II Case Selection
	6 Timing in Stroke and the Tissue Clock
	7 Role of Leptomeningeal Collaterals
	8 Importance of Clot Burden and Clot Location
	9 ASPECTS: When Not to Treat
	10 Microbleeds Are Not a Contraindication to Thrombolysis in Acute Stroke
	11 Stroke Etiologies: Hemodynamic, Embolic, and Perforator Stroke
	12 Endovascular Therapy in a Patient with a Proximal MCA Occlusion and No Neurological Deficits
	13 MRI in Stroke (Core Size, Mismatch, and New Advances)
Part III Fundamentals and Standard Approaches
	14 The Classical Setup: Carotid-T with Balloon
	15 M1 Anatomy and Role of Perforators in Outcome
	16 Basilar Artery Occlusion
	17 ADAPT Technique for Acute Ischemic Stroke Thrombectomy
	18 General Anesthesia in Thrombectomy
	19 Conscious Sedation in Thrombectomy
	20 Endovascular Therapy for Patients with an Isolated M2 Occlusion
Part IV Advanced Techniques
	21 Percutaneous Radial Arterial Access for Thrombectomy
	22 Percutaneous Transcarotid Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke
	23 Distal Access Catheter Technique without Balloon Assistance
Part V Complex Cases
	24 Tandem Lesions
	25 Pseudo-occlusion
	26 Underlying Intracranial Stenosis
	27 Intracranial Dissection
	28 Hyperacute Extracranial Angioplasty and Stenting: When and How
	29 Failed Mechanical Thrombectomy: What to Do Next
	30 Rescue Permanent Stenting
	31 Acute Dissection with Hemodynamic Infarctions
	32 The SAVE Technique
	33 Aspiration-Retriever Technique for Stroke (ARTS)
Part VI Complications
	34 Clot Migration with Emboli to Distal Territories
	35 Endothelial Damage
	36 Management of Vessel Perforation during Stroke Intervention
	37 Arterial Access Complications
	38 Intraprocedural Vasospasm during Thrombectomy
	39 Hemorrhagic Transformation after Endovascular Stroke Therapy
	40 Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
	41 Endovascular Thrombectomy for Pediatric Acute Ischemic Stroke
Part VII Stroke Mimics and Rare Causes
	42 Hemiplegic Migraine
	43 Intra-arterial Contrast Injection during Computed Tomography Angiography
	44 Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS)
	45 Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
	46 Acute Ischemic Stroke Secondary to Cardiac Myxoma Embolus
	47 Seizure
	48 Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
	49 Contrast Staining Masquerading as Hemorrhage
	50 HaNDL
	51 Appendix: Essential Terms, Trials, and Tools
Index