Article History
Received: 19 October 2018
Accepted: 2 December 2018
First Online: 7 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Fischer is a Consultant for Medtronic, Stryker and Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Behring. He is a principal investigator of the SWITCH (Swiss Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy Versus Best.Medical Treatment of Spontaneous Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage (SWITCH): A Randomised Controlled Trial), ELAN (Early Versus Late Initiation of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Post-Ischaemic Stroke Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: An International Multicenter, Randomised-Controlled, Two-Arm, Assessor-Blinded Trial), and SWIFT DIRECT trial (Solitaire With the Intention for Thrombectomy Plus Intravenous t-PA Versus DIRECT Solitaire Stent-Retriever Thrombectomy in Acute Anterior Circulation Stroke).Dr. Caso receives Advisory board fee for Respect-ESUS. All fees and speaker fees for Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS-Pfizer, Ever-Neuropharma are paid to ARS UMBRIA.