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Title: Reasons to Call your Neurointerventionalist

Category: Neurology

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

Posted: 7/9/2008 by Aisha Liferidge, MD (Updated: 7/21/2026)

Top Reasons to call your Neurointerventionalist:

  1. Vascular "blowouts" (i.e carotid tumor or trauma). 
  2. Symptomatic dissections within 6 hours of onset (i.e. carotid or vertebral).
  3. Ischemc Stroke with visible clot on CT angiogram outside of 3-hour IV tPA window.
  4. 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).
  5. Subarachnoid hemorrhage of aneurysmal origin.

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