ESOC 2022 | An overview of ESOC 2022: major topics and important clinical trials

Joanna Wardlaw, CBE, MD, FRCP, FRSE, FMedSci, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, talks about exciting topics to be discussed at ESOC 2022. With almost 4000 registrants for the conference, there has been an abundance of abstracts describing the results of groundbreaking clinical trials, large epidemiology studies, and genetic risk factor studies. Prof. Wardlaw highlights key topics at the meeting, including head-to-head comparison studies of different thrombolytic agents, improving the delivery of acute stroke care with optimized prehospital management, and extending the application of thrombectomy. There will also be a lot of material highlighting the management of acute intracerebral hemorrhage and data on stroke prevention after intracerebral hemorrhage. This interview took place at ESOC 2022 in Lyon, France.