Heldner, Mirjam R. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3594-2159
Chaloulos-Iakovidis, Panagiotis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-9155
Panos, Leonidas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-1819
Volbers, Bastian http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-1530
Kaesmacher, Johannes http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9177-2289
Dobrocky, Tomas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-3343
Mordasini, Pasquale http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1712-4168
El-Koussy, Marwan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1142-4944
Gralla, Jan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1953-9033
Arnold, Marcel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4274-4644
Fischer, Urs http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0521-4051
Mattle, Heinrich P. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7968-1731
Jung, Simon http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-6102
Article History
Received: 28 October 2019
Revised: 31 January 2020
Accepted: 3 February 2020
First Online: 15 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have conflicts of interest all outside the submitted work: MRH: Personal fees from Bayer. Scientific advisory board honoraria from Amgen. Grant from Bangerter Foundation. BV: Personal fees from Pfizer Bristol-Myers Squibb SA/Bayer. Institutional (Inselspital) grant. JK: Grants by Swiss Medical Academy of Medical Sciences/Bangerter Foundation/Swiss Stroke Society. JG: Global PI of STAR/SWIFT DIRECT (Medtronic). CEC-member of the Promise Study (Penumbra). Swiss National Foundation grant (MRI in stroke). MA: Personal fees from Bayer/Medtronic/Covidien. Scientific advisory board honoraria from Amgen/Bayer/Boehringer Ingelheim/BMS/Pfizer/Covidien/Daiichi Sankyo and Nestlé Health Science. UF: Consultant for Medtronic/Stryker/CSL Behring, Co-PI of SWIFT DIRECT (Medtronic). PI of SWITCH/ELAN. Research support of the Swiss National Foundation/Swiss Heart Foundation and Medtronic. SJ: Scientific advisory board honoraria from Bayer/Boehringer Ingelheim/Pfizer. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Patients or their relatives have signed written informed consent for treatment and study participation. The study was approved by the local ethics committee of the canton of Bern (231/14) and has, therefore, been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Data analyses followed EQUATOR reporting guidelines.
: Raw data of all patients included in this study can be made available upon request to the corresponding author and after clearance by the local ethics committee.