Belachew, Nebiyat F. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5285-5922
Piechowiak, Eike I.
Dobrocky, Tomas
Meinel, Thomas R.
Hakim, Arsany
Barvulsky, Enrique A.
Vynckier, Jan
Arnold, Marcel
Seiffge, David J.
Wiest, Roland
Fischer, Urs
Gralla, Jan
Kaesmacher, Johannes
Mordasini, Pasquale
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität Bern
Article History
Received: 27 May 2021
Accepted: 27 July 2021
First Online: 31 August 2021
Declarations
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: N.F. Belachew, E.I. Piechowiak, T. Dobrocky, T.R. Meinel, A. Hakim, E.A. Barvulsky, J. Vynckier, M. Arnold, D.J. Seiffge, R. Wiest and P. Mordasini declare that they have no competing interests. U. Fischer reports grants from Medtronic during the conduct of the study, and grants from Stryker and CSL Behring outside the submitted work. 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. J. Kaesmacher reports grants from Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences/Bangerter Foundation, Swiss Stroke Society, and Clinical Trial Unit Bern during the conduct of the study.
: Ethics approval was obtained from the local ethics committee prior to conducting this study. Consent to participate (include appropriate statements): patients included on 1 January 2015, or later gave written or oral consent regarding use of their data for research. The need for consent was waived according to national law and regulations of the local ethics committee for patients included before this date. Consent for publication: this manuscript presents no individual data. All figures showing patient imaging have been deidentified. Thus, <i>Clinical Neuroradiology</i> is granted the right to publish any and all data provided.