UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Neurology

Title: Reasons to Call your Neurointerventionalist

Keywords: neurointerventionalist, vascular dissection, ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage (PubMed Search)

Posted: 7/9/2008 by Aisha Liferidge, MD (Updated: 4/25/2024)
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Top Reasons to call your Neurointerventionalist:

Vascular "blowouts" (i.e carotid tumor or trauma).
Symptomatic dissections within 6 hours of onset (i.e. carotid or vertebral).
Ischemc Stroke with visible clot on CT angiogram outside of 3-hour IV tPA window.
Ischemic Stroke with visible clot on CT angiogram outside of 3-hour IV tPA window or with contraindication for tPA (i.e may be MERCI Device candidate).
Subarachnoid hemorrhage of aneurysmal origin.