title: Endovascular therapy of acute ischemic stroke: report of the Standards of Practice Committee of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize and classify the evidence for the use of endovascular techniques in the treatment of patients with acute ischemic stroke.
  
  
  METHODS
  Recommendations previously published by the American Heart Association (AHA) (Guidelines for the early management of adults with ischemic stroke (Circulation 2007) and Scientific statement indications for the performance of intracranial endovascular neurointerventional procedures (Circulation 2009)) were vetted and used as a foundation for the current process. Building on this foundation, a critical review of the literature was performed to evaluate evidence supporting the endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The assessment was based on guidelines for evidence based medicine proposed by the Stroke Council of the AHA and the University of Oxford, Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM). Procedural safety, technical efficacy and impact on patient outcomes were specifically examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. blackham@uhhospitals.org
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Blackham
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Abruzzo
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Albuquerque
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Alberquerque
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fiorella
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frei
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Gandhi
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Heck
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: M Shazam
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jayaraman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Narayanan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prestigiacomo
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sunshine
mesh_terms: D000572:American Heart Association; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000145:classification / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards*; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D058028:Research Report; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards; D020521:Stroke / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents