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Successful endovascular recanalization of a partially occluded basilar artery fenestration.
Authors: Meinel TR, Pult F, Gralla J, Arnold M, Bassetti C, Jung S Abstract A 76-year-old man with a history of arterial hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, dyslipidemia, family history of cardiovascular events, prestroke and overweight presented 90 minutes after acute onset of right-sided sensorimotor hemiparesis, hemiataxia and dysarthria (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) 9/42). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a pontine ischemia and MR angiography showed a thrombus in the middle to distal portion of the basilar artery. Owing to the location, an occlusion of one lumen of a fenestrate...
Source: Interventional Neuroradiology - August 11, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Interv Neuroradiol Source Type: research