Early Results of Acute Stroke Intervention Undertaken by Invasive Cardiologists Vs Neuro-Interventionalists - The 63rd Annual Conference of the Israel Heart Society in association with the Israel Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery 12-13 April 2016, David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Background: Based on MOH instructions, acute ischemic stroke (IS) intervention should undertaken only in tertiary center with active neuro- intervention unit.

Since 2010, 73 pts with IS were admitted to our unit. 10/73 were transferred for endovascular intervention. Despite transferring 4/10 were treated conservatively due to either time delay or unsuitable anatomy . At the same period we had to perform acute IS intervention in our unit due to several reasons: unavailability of nerointerventionalist, time transfer limitation factors, deterioration under TPA therapy

Aim: Reporting our results of acute IS intervention Vs the results of the tertiary center

	Invasive cardiologists	Neuro Interventionalists
N .of treated pts, (%Male)	5 , (80%)	6, (67%)
Anterior circulation	2	5
Posterior circulation	3
Balloon angioplasty	4/5	3/6
Thrombectomy	1/5	2/6
Technical success (%)	4/5 (80%)	4/6 (67%)
Clinical success	4/5 (80%)	3/6 (50%)
Intracranial bleeding	0	1
Early death	1	1

N-number, pts -patients

Conclusions: Early results of IS intervention undertaken by experienced cardiac intervntionalist are equivocal to procedures undertaken by neuro interventionalist .