^a Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute and Department of Neurology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA 

^b Department of Neurology, Kasralainy school of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt 

^c Department of Neurology, National Neurosciences Institute, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

^d Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institute,Department of Neurology, University of FIRAT, Elazig Turkey 

^e Clinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 

^f Department of Neurosciences, Hospital Carlo Poma, ASST di Mantova, Mantua, Italy 

^g Department of Neurology, University of Missouri, MO, USA 

^h Stroke Center, Department of Neurology, Kartal Dr. Lutfi Kirdar Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 

ⁱ Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 

^j Department of Neurology, Creighton University Medical Center/CHI Health, Omaha, NE, USA 

^k Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China 

^l Department of Neurology and Interventional Stroke Treatment Centre, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities, Radom, Poland 

^m Department of Neurology, Yeungnam University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea 

ⁿ Department of Neurology, Pak-Emirates Military Hospital, Rwp, Pakistan 

^o Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Rothschild Foundation Hospital, University of Paris, Laboratory of Vascular Translational Sciences, Paris, France. 

^p Stroke & Neurointervention Artemis Hospitals, Gurugram, Haryana 122001, India 

^q Michigan State University, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI, USA 

^r Department of Neurology, Klinikum Frankfurt Ho¨chst, Frankfurt and Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 

^s Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan 

^t Department of Neurology, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain 

^u Servicio de Neurología, Hospital Universitario José Eleuterio González de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Hospital Zambrano Hellion, Tecnológico de Monterrey, San Pedro, Nuevo León, México. 

^v Department of Biomorphology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil 

^w Beverly Hills Pain Institute and Neurology, Beverly Hills, CA, USA 

^x Tiantan Comprehensive Stroke Center, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing, China