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Recommendations for Mechanical Thrombectomy in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

A Clinical Guide by the Hellenic Stroke Organization

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This document presents the consensus recommendations of the Hellenic Stroke Organization which can be of assistance to the treating stroke physicians.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Evangelia Vemmou and Dr. Ilias Nikolakopoulos for their editorial support.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Ηellenic Stroke Organization, Athens, Greece

    Panagiotis Papanagiotou, George Ntaios, Vasileios Papavasileiou, Konstantinos Spengos, Christos Gkogkas, Eleni Korompoki, Konstantinos Makaritsis, Haralambos Milionis, Androniki Plomaritoglou, Konstantinos Takis, Apostolos Hatzitolios & Konstantinos Vemmos

  2. Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Hospital Bremen-Mitte, St.-Jürgen Str. 1, Bremen, Germany

    Panagiotis Papanagiotou & Maria Politi

  3. Neuroscience and Vascular Simulation Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Essex, UK

    Panagiotis Papanagiotou

  4. Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece

    George Ntaios & Konstantinos Makaritsis

  5. Stroke Service, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Vasileios Papavasileiou

  6. Department of Neurology, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Klearchos Psychogios & Konstantinos Takis

  7. Department of Neuroradiology, University Medical Center, Goettingen, Germany

    Marios Psychogios

  8. Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Anastasios Mpotsaris

  9. Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Timolaos Rizos

  10. First Department of Neurology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos Spengos, Sofia Vassilopoulou, Eleni Korompoki & Dimos Mitsikostas

  11. Interventional Radiology Unit, G.N.A. “G. Gennimatas”, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis Gravanis, Georgios Karydas & Nikolaos Ptochis

  12. Interventional Neuroradiology Department, Iaso General Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Christos Gkogkas

  13. Neurointerventional Department of the Clinical Laboratory of Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece

    Petros Zampakis

  14. Department of Neurology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Panagiotis Zis

  15. Department of Medical Imaging, University Hospital and Department of Radiology, University of Crete Medical School, Heraklion, Greece

    Apostolos Karantanas, Dimitrios Tsetis & Adam Hatzidakis

  16. Interventional Neuroradiology Department, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece

    Michail Karygiannis

  17. Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Stroke Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

    Eleni Korompoki

  18. Pepin Heart Institute Florida Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

    Konstantinos Marmagkiolis

  19. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece

    Haralambos Milionis

  20. First Department of Cardiology, Ioannina University Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios Nikas

  21. Department of Neurology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Androniki Plomaritoglou

  22. 1st Propaedeutic Internal Medicine Department, AHEPA Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Christos Savopoulos & Apostolos Hatzitolios

  23. Interventional Neuroradiology Department, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos Tsamopoulos

  24. Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Achilleas Chatziioannou

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P. Papanagiotou: local principal investigator, SWIFT PRIME study; consultant services, Penumbra and Johnson&Johnson. T. Rizos received consulting fees, speakers fees and travel support from BMS Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer HealthCare and Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. G. Ntaios, V. Papavasileiou, K. Psychogios, M. Psychogios, A. Mpotsaris, K. Spengos, M. Gravanis, S. Vassilopoulou, C. Gkogkas, P. Zampakis, P. Zis, A. Karantanas, M. Karygiannis, G. Karydas, E. Korompoki, K. Makaritsis, K. Marmagkiolis, H. Milionis, D. Mitsikostas, D. Nikas, A. Plomaritoglou, M. Politi, N. Ptochis, C. Savopoulos, K. Takis, N. Tsamopoulos, D. Tsetis, A. Hatzidakis, A. Chatziioannou, A. Hatzitolios and K. Vemmos declare that they have no competing interests.

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This article is a translation of an article previously published in Heart Vessels & Brain (April–June 2017):28–35 (http://83.212.32.147/internalmedicine/images/Guidelines/HSO_EVT_Guidelines_HVS2017.pdf) with kind permission of the authors. The article was translated by Dr. Evangelia Vemmou and Dr. Ilias Nikolakopoulos.

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Papanagiotou, P., Ntaios, G., Papavasileiou, V. et al. Recommendations for Mechanical Thrombectomy in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke. Clin Neuroradiol 28, 145–151 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-017-0645-1

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