Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke in a Developing Country.

Background: There is inequality in access to recent advancements in endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), and Mexico is unusually sensitive to such inequality.

Aims: To report the initial experience of the Mexican Endovascular Reperfusion Registry (MERR).

Methods: The MERR is an academic, independent, prospective, multicenter, observational registry of patients treated with endovascular reperfusion techniques in Mexican hospitals.