PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the annual trend for several neurosurgical and neurointerventional procedures (NIPs) in Korea between 2010 and 2016 by using medical claim data. MATERIALS AND METHODS All data during the recent 7 years were collected from Bigdata Hub provided by the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA). Using several codes for medical practice, ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The management of unruptured intracranial aneurysms remains controversial and the results of endovascular treatment are not precisely known because no prospective data exist. The first prospective multicenter study (ATENA) was conducted in Canada and France to determine clinical outcome and risks of this treatment. METHODS Six hundred forty-nine patients harboring a tot...

Gandhi CD, et al. J NeuroIntervent Surg 2018;0:1–6. doi:10.1136/neurintsurg-2017-013554 Neuroendovascular management of emergent large vessel occlusion: update on the technical aspects and standards of practice by the Standards and Guidelines Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery Chirag D Gandhi, Fawaz Al Mufti, I Paul Singh, Todd Abruzzo, Barbara Albani, Sameer A Ansari, Adam...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The ubiquitous use of the Internet by the public in an attempt to better understand their health care requires the on-line resources written at an appropriate level to maximize comprehension for the average user. The National Institutes of Health and the American Medical Association recommend on-line patient education resources written at a third-to-seventh grade level. W...

Background In pursuit of a cure for cancer, it is imperative to utilize every tool, resource, and strategy. Included under this umbrella the optimization drug delivery. Broadly speaking, anti‐cancer treatment has been perpetually hindered by off‐target activity, systemic toxicity, other adverse reactions. Intraarterial (IA) delivery therapeutics an approach that garnered increased attention in ...