Financial & competing interests disclosure
HL Lutsep has served on the Steering Committee of the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke-sponsored ‘Stenting Versus Aggressive Medical Therapy for Intracranial Arterial Stenosis’ trial. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.