title: Mechanical Thrombectomy-Ready Comprehensive Stroke Center Requirements and Endovascular Stroke Systems of Care: Recommendations from the Endovascular Stroke Standards Committee of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN).
abstract: Five landmark multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded end point clinical trials have recently demonstrated significant clinical benefit of endovascular therapy with mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients presenting with proximal intracranial large vessel occlusions. The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN) appointed an expert writing committee to summarize this new evidence and make recommendations on how these data should guide emergency endovascular therapy for AIS patients.
authors.affiliation: Neurointerventional Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif., USA.
authors.forename: Joey D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: English
authors.affiliation: Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla., USA.
authors.forename: Dileep R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Yavagal
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgery, WellStar Medical Group, Marietta, Ga., USA.
authors.forename: Rishi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Neurology, Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, Tex., USA.
authors.forename: Vallabh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Janardhan
authors.affiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis., USA.
authors.forename: Osama O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Zaidat
authors.affiliation: Neurology, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Mich., USA.
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Xavier
authors.affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., USA.
authors.forename: Raul G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Nogueira
authors.affiliation: Stroke and Neurovascular Center, JFK Medical Center, Edison, N.J., USA.
authors.forename: Jawad F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kirmani
authors.affiliation: Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA.
authors.forename: Tudor G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Jovin
keywords: Acute ischemic stroke; Large vessel occlusion; Mechanical thrombectomy; Systems of care