Endovascular Devices Headline International Stroke Conference
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The American Heart Association-sponsored conference in Nashville featured late-breaking presentations of data from several major neurointerventional device trials as well as meta-analysis and pooled results confirming the benefits of endovascular intervention in several difficult-to-treat populations of stroke patients.
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