Wingspan stenting can effectively prevent long-term strokes for patients with severe symptomatic atherosclerotic basilar stenosis.

CONCLUSIONS: The benefit of stenting for patients with severe basilar artery stenosis (> 70%) may lie in lowering the long-term fatal and disabling stroke rate; and as long as the peri-operative stroke rate can be kept at a relatively lower level, patients with severe basilar stenosis can benefit from basilar artery stenting. PMID: 26823331 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26823331?dopt=Abstract

Source: Interventional Neuroradiology - January 31, 2016 Category: Radiology Tags: Interv Neuroradiol Source Type: research