Mujanovic, Adnan
Kammer, Christoph
Kurmann, Christoph C.
Grunder, Lorenz
Beyeler, Morin
Lang, Matthias F.
Piechowiak, Eike I.
Meinel, Thomas R.
Jung, Simon
Almiri, William
Pilgram-Pastor, Sara
Hoffmann, Angelika
Seiffge, David J.
Heldner, Mirjam R.
Dobrocky, Tomas
Mordasini, Pasquale
Arnold, Marcel
Gralla, Jan
Fischer, Urs
Kaesmacher, Johannes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9177-2289
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerische Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften (JK)
University of Bern
Article History
Received: 4 March 2022
Accepted: 31 May 2022
First Online: 14 July 2022
Declarations
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: T.R. Meinel reports research support from the Bangerter Rhyner Foundation, Swiss National Foundation, and the Swiss Heart Foundation. M.R. Heldner reports research support from the Bangerter Foundation, scientific advisory board honoraria from Amgen, and personal fees from Bayer. P. Mordasini reports research support from Siemens, Cerenovus, iSchemaview, Medtronic and Stryker, and is receipt of honoraria and consultation fees from Medtronic, Cerenovus, Phenox and Microvention. M. Arnold reports personal fees from Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Medtronic, Amgen, Daiichi Sankyo, Nestlé Health Sciences, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Covidien. J. Gralla is a global principal investigator of STAR (Solitaire FR Thrombectomy for Acute Revascularisation), Clinical Event Committee member of the PROMISE study (Prospective, Multicenter, Observational, Single-Arm European Registry on the ACE Reperfusion Catheters and the Penumbra System in the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke; Penumbra), and a principal investigator and consultant for the SWIFT DIRECT study (Solitaire With the Intention for Thrombectomy Plus Intravenous tPA Versus DIRECT Solitaire Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy in Acute Anterior Circulation Stroke; Medtronic) and receives Swiss National Science Foundation grants for magnetic resonance imaging in stroke. U. Fischer reports grants during the conduct of the study from Medtronic, Stryker, and CSL Behring. J. Kaesmacher reports grants from the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences/Bangerter Foundation, Swiss Stroke Society, and Clinical Trials Unit Bern during the conduct of the study, and editorial board membership of the Journal of Clinical Neuroradiology. A. Mujanovic, C. Kammer, C.C. Kurmann, L. Grunder, M. Beyeler, M.F. Lang, E.I. Piechowiak, S. Jung, W. Almiri, S. Pilgram-Pastor, A. Hoffmann, D.J. Seiffge and T. Dobrocky declare that they have no competing interests.
: This study is approved by the local ethics committee (reference ID 2020-01696) and is conducted in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its subsequent amendments. Consent: informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.