Rescue Intracranial Balloon Angioplasty with or without Stent Placement in Acute Strokes with Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease

CONCLUSION: Rescue angioplasty with or without stenting can lead to significant clinical improvement in patients with ICAD presenting with ELVO and refractory to thrombectomy; however, this procedure is associated with a high rate of morbidity in acute setting.PMID:36681321 | DOI:10.1016/j.wneu.2023.01.057

Source: Atherosclerosis - January 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ashkan Mowla Kasra Khatibi Seyed-Mostafa Razavi Naoki Kaneko Lucido Luciano Ponce Mejia Hamidreza Saber Satoshi Tateshima Source Type: research