Ahmad Ballout

Neurointerventional Surgery Fellow 🧠@CooperNeuroInt

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#STROKE🧵This topical review by Ballout et al. outlines the existing gap between histopathological studies and clinical trials that have shaped our understanding of current imaging constructs. #AHAJournals @AhmadBalloutMD @dliebesk @TudorGJovin

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A Libertarian Textbook Case of Compassion and Collaboration.
Christians & Sunnis have welcomed Shiites seeking refuge. Greek Orthodox, Maronite, & Catholic schools have housed displaced families.

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"Nevertheless, continued efforts to narrow the imaging-neuropathological gap are critical to ensure that our diagnostics keep up with our therapeutics, in that our imaging constructs evolve and remain in stride with our reperfusion therapies."

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"Our current imaging constructs have been critical in guiding us toward the forest but may have blurred the diversity of trees...

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"This journey must also be met with a psychological shift, as we must reconcile our desires for precision with the exquisite time dependence of treatment and the immense difficulty in predicting the behavior of complex biological processes....

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@NoheadachesNoah @AANmember @NorthwellHealth @ZuckerSoM Amazing crew 🔥

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What an incredible place. #Rome #Florence #Tuscany #SPQR #26.2✅

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Plastic in carotid 4x higher risk of composite stroke/MI/death 🤔

Wonder what TCD micro-emboli actually compose of

https://t.co/4VDCVYvsYv

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In the recent large core trials, the treatment effect of mechanical thrombectomy persisted across all imaging strata.

So, does core volume still matter?

Ongoing meta-analyses will be critical in defining this relationship.

Thoughts below 👇

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This hurts

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Lions meltdown

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@SVINJournal Thank you for sharing our paper @SVINJournal @dliebesk. Indeed, degree stenosis is only the beginning of the story. #BeyondStenosis #Hemodynamics

[Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology @SVINJournal]

1/
✋The degree of stenosis is not the whole story!

Why is it that some patients with ICAD are a higher risk of recurrent strokes than others?🤔

Enter Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)!

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@siuhlhhneuro @AANmember @AshkaNeuro Congrats, Ash. Well deserved

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@ShadiYaghi2 I like it. Rather than $$$, maybe reviewer gets credits that can be used to support open access publication fees for future paper submissions to any journal that falls under the publishers umbrella.

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Outstanding 5K run this morning! Stay healthy with SVIN!
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@stephanamayer *7 hours

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@stephanamayer The recent LASTE study showed benefit of MT in patients presenting within 12 hours, with more than half of the patients having ASPECTS 0-2 and no heterogeneity of treatment effect across ASPECTS. So, probably, in most.

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@MicieliA_MD @stephanamayer Great example, highlights the uncertainty I've had w/ several recent cases. At what shade of grey do we call this a "completed infarction". While there is a linear correlation b/w degree hypodensity & ionic edema, does this necessarily correlate w/ degree infarction?