Thrombectomy for Stroke in the Public Health Care System of Brazil

Sheila O Martins¹, Francisco Mont'Alverne¹, Letícia C Rebello¹+30

• ¹From the Departments of Neurology (S.O.M., A.C.S., L.A.C.), Interventional Neuroradiology (M.B.F.), and Social Medicine (M.B.W.), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (S.O.M., A.C.S., L.A.C., M.B.W.), Porto Alegre, the Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology (F.M.A., D.B.) and Neurology (F.O.L., J.J.F.C., F.M.C., D.B.), Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, and the Department of Post-Graduate Medical Sciences, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza (F.M.C.), the Departments of Neurology (L.C.R.) and Neurosurgery (B.S.M.P., E.W.), Instituto Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brasilia, the Stroke Neurology Division, Departments of Interventional Neuroradiology (D.G.A., G.S.N.) and Neuroscience and Behavioral Sciences (F.A.D., O.M.P.-N.), Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, the Departments of Neurology (G.S.S., M.M.A.) and Interventional Neuroradiology (M.E.F.), Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Academic Research Organization, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (G.S.S.), the Department of Neurology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (F.B.C.), and the Department of Neurology and Interventional Neuroradiology, Hospital de Base de São José do Rio Preto (R.C.T.H.), São Paulo, the Department of Neurology, Hospital Estadual Central de Vitória, Vitória (J.A.F.), the Department of Neurology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (V.F.Z.), the Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Bahia School of Medicine, Salvador (J.O.-F.), the Department of Neurology, Hospital Pró-Cardíaco, Rio de Janeiro (D.C.B.), and Administrative Director of the National Council of Municipal Health Secretariats, Bauru (J.E.F.P.) - all in Brazil; the Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Stroke Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (D.S.L., J.L.S.); the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati (J.B.); the Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona (C.A.M.); and the Department of Neurology, Marcus Stroke and Neuroscience Center, Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (R.G.N.).