BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Radiation exposure from neurointerventional procedures and diagnostic neuroimaging can be substantial, with many recommendations offered to guide the interventionalist in the conscientious use of ionizing radiation. Patients presenting with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage can undergo multiple imaging procedures during a prolonged hospital course. Therefore, we revie...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Given the current high quality and usefulness of noninvasive cerebrovascular imaging, invasive angiographic evaluation of the cerebrovascular system is justified if the procedural risk for a neurologic complication is far below the anticipated benefit. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of diagnostic cerebral angiography provided by a dedicated neurointe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Organized systems of care have the potential to improve acute stroke care delivery. The current report describes the experience of implementing a county-wide system of spoke-and-hub stroke neurology receiving centers (SNRC) that incorporated several comprehensive stroke center recommendations. METHODS Observational study of patients with suspected stroke of <5 hours dur...

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Neurointervention has fast found its way through treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Being less invasive and associated with less post-operative morbidity than the open surgical methods, it is of growing interest among neurologists and neurosurgeons around the world. Since the introduction of this field in Iran for almost a decade ago, many patients with neurologic problems have benefited fr...

Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society of Radiology RE: Efficacy of Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Ramsin Benyamin, MD, Alan David Kaye, MD, PhD, Joshua A. Hirsch, MD Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY 42003, USA; Millennium Pain Center, B...

OBJECTIVE Different technical and procedural methods have been introduced to develop low radiation dose protocols in neurointerventional examinations. We investigated the feasibility of minimizing radiation exposure dose by simply decreasing the detector dose during cerebral DSA and evaluated the comparative level of image quality using both subjective and objective methods. METHODS In a pros...