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Commentary on “Outcomes of Stroke Thrombectomy Performed by Interventional Radiologists versus Neurointerventional Physicians”
https://www.jvir.org/article/S1051-0443(22)00759-X/fulltext?rss=yes

The article “Outcomes of Stroke Thrombectomy Performed by Interventional Radiologists versus Neurointerventional Physicians” addresses an important and controversial issue of whether nonneuroscience interventional physicians should be performing stroke thrombectomy (1). There is convincing evidence that stroke thrombectomy improves the clinical outcomes of large vessel occlusion (LVO) anterior circulation strokes and that it is cost effective (2,3). This article provides data to support the position that interventional radiology (IR) physicians with additional training can achieve technical and clinical outcomes similar to those obtained by neurointerventional (NI) physicians.