[Experience with transluminal stent-assisted angioplasty for intracranial vascular diseases]

Autor: Zhongrong, Miu, Feng, Ling, Shenmao, Li, Fengshui, Zhu, Moli, Wang, Hongqi, Zhang, Yang, Hua, Qingbin, Song
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Zhonghua wai ke za zhi [Chinese journal of surgery]. 40(12)
ISSN: 0529-5815
Popis: To assess the value of stent-assistant angioplasty for intracranial vascular diseases.Thirteen patients with intracranial vascular diseases were treated consecutively by stent-assistant angioplasty for different purposes. Of these patients 7 had symptomatic intracranial artery stenosis, 3 intracranial wide-neck aneurysms, 2 intracranial pseudoaneurysms, and 1 bilateral transverse sinus stenosis. Clinical procedures and technical data of the patients were retrospectively analyzed.In the 7 patients, the degree of intracranial artery stenosis reduced from 83% to 5%. Three months after the operation they exhibited good patency of stented lesions. Intracranial wide neck aneurysms (with 2 pseudoaneurysms) were successfully embolized with GDC in 5 patients. The patients with bilateral transverse sinus stenosis were implanted a self-expanded stent in the right transverse sinus. One patient failed because of the tortuous configuration of the left jugular bulb, but the patient's symptoms were improved quickly after the procedure.Stent-assistant angioplasty is a useful technique for selected intracranial vascular diseases, and it needs further investigation.
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