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Roadmap-assisted V3 Vertebral Artery Interventional Approach to the Basilar Artery

Case Report and Systematic Search of the Literature

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Abbreviations

AIS:

Acute ischemic stroke

BA:

Basilar artery

EVT:

Endovascular treatment

LVO:

Large vessel occlusion

mRS:

Modified Rankin scale

MT:

Mechanical thrombectomy

mTICI:

Modified thrombolysis in cerebral infarction

NIHSS:

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

VA:

Vertebral artery

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  1. Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

    Mahmoud Elhorany, Maichael Talaat, Kevin Premat, Yves Samson & Frédéric Clarençon

  2. GRC Biofast. Paris VI University, Paris, France

    Mahmoud Elhorany, Maichael Talaat & Frédéric Clarençon

  3. Department of Neuroradiology, APHP. Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47–83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Mahmoud Elhorany, Maichael Talaat, Kevin Premat, Stéphanie Lenck, Nader-Antoine Sourour, Frédéric Clarençon & Eimad Shotar

  4. Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

    Mahmoud Elhorany

  5. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Maichael Talaat

  6. Department of Neurology, APHP. Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Marion Masingue & Yves Samson

  7. Department of Anaesthesiology, APHP. Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

    Amine Daoudi

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All the coauthors contributed equally to prepare this manuscript: Eimad Shotar supervised the work and critically reviewed the manuscript. Mahmoud Elhorany performed the systematic review of literature and prepared the manuscript. Maichael Talaat along with Mahmoud Elhorany independently performed the systematic review of literature. Frederic Clarençon reviewed the manuscript critically. All other coauthors contributed to manuscript preparation.

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N.-A. Sourour is consultant for Medtronic, Balt Extrusion, Microvention. F. Clarençon reports conflict of interest (unrelated) with Medtronic, Guerbet, Balt Extrusion (payment for readings), Artedrone (consultant), Codman Neurovascular and Microvention (core lab). M. Elhorany, M. Talaat, M. Mazingue, A. Daoudi, K. Premat, S. Lenck, Y. Samson and E. Shotar report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper.

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Elhorany, M., Talaat, M., Masingue, M. et al. Roadmap-assisted V3 Vertebral Artery Interventional Approach to the Basilar Artery. Clin Neuroradiol 30, 869–873 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-020-00918-x

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