title: A call for neurologists to take up stroke intervention.
abstract: Recent data have provided overwhelming evidence in favor of benefits of emergent endovascular intervention in large vessel acute ischemic stroke (AIS). India with its large population has a huge burden of AIS. Hence, neurologists need to gear up to the new challenge of providing interventional care to huge populations of AIS in the country. The best way to cover this unprecedented unmet need is to encourage neurologists to take up interventional subspecialty interests through new but sound training pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Vasantha M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Padma
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Rohit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhatia
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Gigy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kuruttukulam
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, KEM Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alurkar
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Max Healthcare, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Kewal Krishan
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Talwar
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Dheeraj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
authors.forename: Subhash
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Vinit
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Suri
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
authors.forename: Gagandeep
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: NH institute of Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Vikram
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Huded
keywords: Acute ischemic stroke; endovascular treatment; interventionalist