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Neurointerventional Radiologist and Professor. Co-PI of Neurovascular Lab. Editor-in-Chief Interventional Neuroradiology. Syrio-Phoenician

Rochester, MN
Joined April 2015
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@WBrinjikji
Waleed Brinjikji
6 months
Sadly my NIH R01 renewal did not get funded despite over 42 published papers most of which were in good journals (22nd percentile). I am going to focus on more important things going forward like being able to bench 300lbs. Something I guess none of the reviewers could do.
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I have accepted a new role as Editor-in-Chief of pubmed indexed: The Neuroradiology Journal. Looking forward to building a social media team and a new team of INTERNATIONAL associate editors! If interested please email me brinjikji.waleed @mayo .edu
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7 years
Over 200 peer reviewed articles from Syrian physicians @MayoClinic in 2016. Think about that... #MuslimBan
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2 years
Best month of the year. Ramadan! Happy and blessed Ramadan to all who celebrate!
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2 years
Recently did my first robotic angiogram with ⁦ @CorindusInc ⁩ ⁦ @SiemensHealth ⁩ The future is truly limitless. Imagine robots with AI assistance. What a time to be alive!
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WFITN announces new Editor-in-Chief "Interventional Neuroradiology" | I will be taking on the EIC role at INR starting October. real privilege and I look forward to building on the incredible work of ⁦ @kanachan2020 ⁩, KTB, and Lasjaunias
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2 years
(-) MRI does not mean no SIH. Pt with brain fog, orthostatic headaches, tinnitus, imbalance. Dismissed by many docs. Pt advocated 4 themself. Large CSFVF. Embolized. 6 mo f/u Sx resolved. We need to advocate for our patients! ⁦ @spinalCSFleak ⁩ ⁦ @WouterSchievink
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Honored to receive the 2023 No LVO Left Behind Award for my commitment to LVO and coming in on a Lime Scooter for a code stroke because my son was mid haircut at the mall and I didn’t want to leave my family with no car. #NoLVOLeftBehind @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoRadiology
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4 years
Just a diagrammatic representation of all the anastomoses between the ophthalmic artery and the ECA. Yes, I do make the fellow memorize this before any eca embolization.
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So happy to see our work featured on @TheAJNR cover. First truly impactful paper I have ever written. Glad to see that at least a dozen docs have started tx pts with this. Tx 50th pt yesterday. Anyone who wants help using this technique to Tx a patient call me anytime.
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Wake up stroke. NIHSS22. CTP shows 72cc core. ASPECTS 10 though? Went in because ASPECTS>>CTP. JETD. Pt. normal at 24hr. Near nl MRI post op. @WBrinjikji faith in CTP now 0.
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Clinical and imaging outcomes of cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula embolization | Super proud of this one. Forty consecutive patients. HIT-6 and Bern score improvement. High rates of clinical efficacy. ⁦ @MayoClinicNeuro ⁩ ⁦ @spinalCSFleak
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2 years
Eid Mubarak و كل عام و انتم بخير
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3 years
This post is bound to offend many. But I want to be a controversial neurorad. Someone asked me yesterday my biggest professional regret. I was honest...it was not going into neurosurgery.
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2 years
Too much cynicism in medicine leading to too much disillusionment. Take a moment to reflect! What a privilege it is for us to be able to care for others, teach others, and help advance science to potentially touch millions of lives.
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4 years
Read (or listen to) @HardcoreHistory The End is Always Near. I poo pooed the talk of pandemics rapidly destroying global economies and societies. We are too modern for that I thought. Well, now I see how it can be true. The end is always near!
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4 years
Beautiful gift from my mentor and friend @GLanzinoNSGY Egas Moniz lecture to British Society of Neurosurgeons signed by Moniz himself! We stand on the shoulders of giants!
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Bad things can be prevented if you know your anatomy! Here’s a diagrammatic representation of various anastomoses between the cavernous ICA and ECA branches.
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5 years
Simple coiling of broad necked acom. Dual operator. A tip I learned from my mentor G Lanzino-park micro at neck when coiling broad necked aneurysms and you might avert the “need” for a ballon/stent/etc
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Got the chance to do first in man for our FDA cleared BOSS balloon guide catheter from our startup Marblehead Medical. First pass tici 3 with 6Fr Sofia in M2 and flow arrest! Special thanks to @MayoInvents for the support! @MayoRadiology @MayoClinicNeuro
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WEB placement in a 9mm basilar tip aneurysm. Fubuki in right vert. 6Fr Sofia. Via 33. 10x5 device. Video at 2X. #JustWEBit @AdamArthurMD @mobilestroke4U @jildazz @DanMeila @Aggour @VladoKZg @paddynicholson @VitorMendesPer1
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3 years
My research fellow is applying for radiology residency! He has great work ethic, very generous and kind, a great communicator and is very bright! Look him up when you are looking at your ERAS applications.
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To all my mentors, teachers, friends and everyone who has helped me reach this point, know that you are the reason behind this smile. #Match2022 #futureradres #radres #Radiology @MayoRadiology
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1 year
The introduction section of a scientific manuscript should be less than or equal to 5 sentences. Cut to the chase and say why you performed the study.
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4 years
Lots of ways to cause posterior circulation strokes even when you are embolizing far away from the vert. Keep these dangerous anastomoses in mind! YouTube three part series coming out this week because...why not?
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I’m just gonna say it...case reports are underrated.
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5 years
Case-Based Vascular Neuroradiology-This was a labor of love during the past two years. Lots of time reading, writing and putting together cases. I did it to be better in diagnostic while in INR fellowship in Toronto and learned a ton in the process!
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Robotic spinal angiogram today. Went very well. Lots of cases with ⁦ @CorindusInc ⁩ robot lately. Can’t wait to do more! ⁦ @MayoRadiology ⁩ ⁦ @MayoClinicNeuro
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AVM of the mandible, treated with direct puncture, onyx. Complete occlusion! Gone are the days of alcohol for treating these lesions! ⁦Thanks ⁦⁦ @VitorMendesPer1 ⁩ for teaching me! ⁦⁦ @LINNConline @paddynicholson ⁩ ⁦ @AmeerEHassan ⁩ ⁦ @MayoRadiology
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2 years
Eid Mubarak كل عام وانت بخير!!!
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3 years
@adnanalkhouli @JACCJournals Absolutely unnecessary. I am not treating stemis although I am sure I can catheterize a coronary artery and put a stent. It’s disrespectful to the field of neurointervention for other professions to think they can take a weekend course on thrombectomy and become neuroIRs.
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Ramadan Mubarak! Looking forward to this beautiful month!
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5 years
Another “classic” CSF venous fistula on digital subtraction myelogram. Thanks to Richard Farb for opening my eyes to this technique! ⁦ @spinalCSFleak ⁩ ⁦ @TimAmrheinMD ⁩ ⁦ @PeterGKranz
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Dangerous Anastomoses Lecture Orbital Region via @YouTube . Hi all! Here is part 1 of a three part lecture series on dangerous anastomoses. Many illustrative cases! hopefully a good reference! @YoungNIR @NeuroUnited @LINNConline @eytanraz @neuroangio1
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Large basilar aneurysm. Previously coiled. Marked compaction. Tx options include stent assisted coiling or WEB. Went with 11x6 WEB. Hard to get via 33 to aneurysm neck but once there was very solid.
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3 years
Most brain things in neuroradiology can be figured out with an axial flair. There I said it.
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2 years
Great time having ⁦ @Eikeip ⁩ visit this week and see our csf leak, spine and neuroIR practice! We learned a lot from him! Amazing stuff going on in Bern!
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4 years
Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate!
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Anatomy of Spinal Venous Drainage for the Neurointerventionalist: From Puncture Site to Intervertebral Foramen | proud of fellows ⁦ @BorgNicholas @OushySolimanMD ⁩ 4 putting this together. A pathway to each foramen for CSFVF and epidural avf Tx!
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Dangerous anastomoses during cSDH embolization. Here is a nice example of the meningolacrimal branch. Always the potential for anastomoses with ophthalmic. We went distal for the embo. @kanachan2020 @eytanraz
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Waleed Brinjikji
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Mechanical thrombectomy for #stroke NNT<3. Here's some perspective on how awesome that is.
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3 years
I’m just gonna say it...an unintended consequence of the administrative bureaucracy built around academic research is that it detracts from meaningful research. To put it bluntly, administration kills research and thus progress. #controversialneuroradiologist
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Had a great time hosting Dr. Civelli from @NeuroLarib for 2 weeks @MayoRadiology @MayoClinicNeuro to teach about our CSF leak program. During his time here he saw over 10 CSFVF embos, multiple positive DSMs and PC-CTMs. Looking fwd to seeing more patients in France benefiting!
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Amazing. A RADIOLOGIST Adam Bernheim from ⁦ @MtSinaiQueens ⁩ on ⁦ @CNN ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisCuomo ⁩ talking about use of CT scan for testing for Coronavirus. Great to see how well our profession is being represented!
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Waleed Brinjikji
2 years
Is anyone else starting to feel like you need some human superpower just to get through the submission process and paperwork for most journals?
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Waleed Brinjikji
4 years
What is low ASPECTS? U r seeing loss of GW differentiation but low ASPECTS≠large core. Here’s an example of a pt I had with ASPECTS of 3-4 in retrospect. One pass Sofia Plus. Final infarct shows loss of non eloquent gray matter but no large core! mRS 1! Topography matters too!
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Waleed Brinjikji
4 years
amazing. 3 months ago @nytimes and @washingtonpost were publishing articles framing docs as greedy and now in the midst of pandemic, who is putting their lives and their families’ lives on the line every day to help patients? hope the misrepresentation of physicians stops here.
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3 years
AI will never replace human radiologists. #controversialneuroradiologist
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1 year
Americans should cheer for Morocco. On December 20, 1777, the Kingdom of Morocco became the first country in the world to recognize United States independence, only a year and a half after the U.S. Declaration of Independence was issued.
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Waleed Brinjikji
4 years
Lecture topics to be posted next week on the YouTube channel: 1. Developmental Anomalies: from variant to disease. 2. Capillary telangiectasias: from variant to disease and 3. Intracranial Dissections!
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6 years
Done!
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4 years
Eid Mubarak!! كل عام و انتم بخير!!!!
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1 year
تكبير!!!!🇲🇦🇲🇦
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10 months
Going through the charts of the first 100 CSFVF pts we treated for a study on 1yr follow up. Learning a lot from both successes and failures. Every interventionist/surgeon should take time to personally review outcomes. Lots to learn from past experiences.
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CSF venous fistula on Cine setting using @Philips fluoro. We are always working to figure out a better way to identify these so patients can get the Dx and Tx they need.
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5 years
Classic CSF-venous fistula identified using Digital Subtraction Myelography ⁦ @spinalCSFleak
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4 years
Ramadan Kareem!
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1 year
Medicine is such a great profession but you wouldn’t know it from all the complainers on twitter
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9 months
So proud of our CSF leak team @MayoClinic for having enrolled 25 csf leak patients in our clinical trial in just 6 weeks. Teamwork and multidisciplinary care across neurology neurosurgery and neuroradiology pays off.
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The energy at @svinsociety was palpable. Had a great time. Got to meet a lot of fantastic people including so many residents, fellows and early career staff. The future is bright!!!
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I’ve never called a sign before but my fellow and now colleague John Benson couldn’t pass this one up. We noticed that Loeys Dietz patients have a very capacious carotid bulb and a wide angle of bifurcation.
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One of my biggest regrets in life, other than not becoming a neurosurgeon, is that I never had the patience to learn how to code. #controversialneuroradiologist
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Proud to be part of Mayo Clinic Neuroradiology. Leading the way with the highest number of contributions to ⁦ @TheAJNR ⁩ So proud to work with leaders in advanced MRI, vascular imaging, peds, spine and INR! ⁦ @MayoRadiology
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Excited our prospective trial of embolization of definitive CSFVF is up and enrolling. 5 patients in two weeks already. Funded by @MayoRadiology These types of studies are essential to advancing care of @spinalCSFleak patients. Amazing team @MayoClinicNeuro n @karijbusch
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Conclusions The direct proof of spinal CSF leakage in 25.9% of patients suggests that spinal CSF leaks may be a frequent cause of nongeriatric CSDH.” The inr community needs to start taking SIH more seriously
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3 years
Sorry it took so long for us to get our act together and get this out there. But finally a nice technical video on our novel csf vf embolization technique
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JNIS Technical Video @BorgNicholas et al demonstrate the technique for transvenous embolization of a CSF-venous fistula #medtwitter #neurotwitter @WBrinjikji
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Me: WEB is amazing. It’s amazing that we can finally effectively treat these broad necked aneurysms without stents etc. Boss: Type in Moret and balloon remodeling in pubmed. Me: 😳
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Fun with robots. ⁦ @CorindusInc ⁩ ⁦ @MCNeurovasc ⁩ ⁦ @MayoRadiology
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2 years
Beautiful Garden Party ⁦ @WFITNKYOTO ⁩ for all participants and families. Had the pleasure of spending some time and getting advice from prior ⁦ @INR_WFITN ⁩ EIC ⁦ @kanachan2020
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Things that make CTP less reliable: old strokes, white matter disease, low cardiac output, arrhythmia, prior contrast, carotid stenosis, bad bolus, patient motion, processing errors...what else?
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3 years
Ramadan Mubarak! Happy Ramadan!
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9 months
Inshallah this week 50,000
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9 months
Thinking about starting a quarterly case conference for neurointerventionalists treating CSFVF. If you are interested please send me a DM and we can work to organize
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2 years
Had fun presenting on CSFembo in Val D’Isere. Slide number one…the team. Nothing happens without the team. ⁦ @JCGneuro ⁩ ⁦ @MayoClinicNeuro ⁩ ⁦ @MayoRadiology #patientsfirst @spinalCSFleak
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4 years
“There is no such thing as a sacral CSF venous fistula”...well...what do we have here on this fancy DSM?
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2 years
What will Neurointerventionalists be doing in 2030 that we are not doing today? Comment below!
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2 years
Beautiful beautiful Kyoto.
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2 years
I’ve jsut now started getting comfortable calling colleagues who are 5-10 years older than me by their first name. >10 years off limits though.
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3 months
Excited to talk about csf leaks at the international stroke conference tomorrow. Especially excited to reach out to neurologists and interventional neurologists around the world to talk about how we can touch more lives.
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3 years
It don’t get much better than this. #moose #yellowstone #3C
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2 years
Putin invaded Syria a few years ago. 2021 Airwars documented 23,000 civilian casualties from Russian military actions since 2015. No one cares though because they don’t look like “us” whoever “us” is. No SNL tributes. No celebrity tweets. Etc.
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Had a great time hosting the @Balt_Group to teach about SIH and learn about their amazing products! Even got to try out #SQUID in an MMA model.
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I love that prof Berenstein had a call out to the scientist and physician Ibn Al Nafis, the first person to describe the circulatory system. #ASNR2020
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Great time hosting Dr. David Kumpe @MayoRadiology @MayoClinicNeuro to learn about CSFVF embolization. He saw three cases all of which went well.
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Big 3 days. New photon counting CT dynamic myelo, amazing @MayoRadiology and a team of neurologists including @JCGneuro led to us finding 10csvfs and Tx 10csfvf patients with #embo in three days. Pts doing well. The future is bright @MayoClinic #boldforward @GFarrugiaMD Nof1
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Symptomatic carotid web. Refractory to medical therapy. Treated with primary stenting. Underrecognized entity in neuro community!!!
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3 years
Excited to be speaking tomorrow on treatment of CSF-venous fistula @SNISinfo . Lots of lessons learned. Incredible opportunity for neurointerventionalists to change the lives of patients.
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Ruptured pseudoaneurysm from the anterior temporal artery. Treated with a few drops of onyx. R radial, Benchmark, SL10, Onyx 18. @PairsNeuro @LINNConline @VladoKZg @AmeerEHassan @VitorMendesPer1 @paddynicholson
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We did our first three WEB cases today! Truly a disruptive technology. Thanks to Mr. President ⁦ @AdamArthurMD ⁩ for proctoring us on such short notice.
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Excited to be on the planning committee for next years @svinsociety Another testament to the cross discipline nature of the organization and our field in general.
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2 years
I’ve been seeing a lot of patients with stone cold normal brain MRI and massive csf venous fistulae lately. I wonder what the mechanism of the lack of brain sag in these patients is. @JCGneuro @WouterSchievink @TimAmrheinMD @PeterGKranz
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On my way to ⁦ @svinsociety ⁩ !!!
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4 years
Distal left M1. TICI 3 1 pass manual aspiration with @CERENOVUS_HQ Large Bore Catheter (LBC). Tracked very nicely over Rebar 18! @VladoKZg @jildazz @LINNConline @JustinSingerMD @VitorMendesPer1 @DanielVelaMD @YoungNIR
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Dangerous Anastomoses Part 3: Upper Cervical Region Third and final part of the series on dangerous anastomoses. My favorite artery the ascending pharyngeal makes it’s case! @eytanraz @svinsociety @AmeerEHassan @LINNConline @graffeo @YoungNIR @youngneuros
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