... (rtPA) with improvement of neurologic deficits, and later developed right foot arterial ischemia (recanalized by balloon catheter angioplasty) and left arm superficial venous thrombosis. A control computed tomography (CT) scan 7 days after onset showed hemorrhagic transformation of ischemic lesion...

...Xinfeng Liu; Yunyun Xiong; Zhiming Zhou; Guozhong Niu; Wei Wang; Guodong Xiao; Min Lin; Thomas W. Leung; Dezhi Liu; Wenhua Liu; Xiaobin Fan; Qin Yin; Wusheng Zhu; Minmin Ma; Renliang Zhang; Gelin Xu Background: Angioplasty and stenting have recently become attractive options for cerebral large...

...Nadia Khan; Robert Dodd; Michael P. Marks; Teresa Bell-Stephens; Joli Vavao; Gary K. Steinberg Background: Moyamoya disease (MMD) is an idiopathic progressive arteriopathy affecting the proximal intracranial vasculature. To date only 4 case reports on intracranial angioplasty or stenting...

... to in the content or advertisements. Inflammation Angioplasty Carotid stenosis Interleukins Carotid ultrasound Inflammation is currently recognized as an important factor in the development, progression, and rupture of atherosclerotic plaques [ 1,2 ]. The measurements of circulating inflammatory...

... thrombolysis Angioplasty Mechanical embolectomy Currently, only intravenous administration of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV rtPA) within 3 h after symptom onset has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) [ 1 ]. However, recent...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Carotid stenosis, asymptomatic Endarterectomy Angioplasty Extracranial internal carotid artery stenosis...

... on individual institutional experience. In all situations, the best medical therapy should accompany surgery. In the recent years, appearance of angioplasty, stenting, and distal protection procedures provides competitive alternatives to classical endarterectomy. However, long-term benefits of carotid...

...E EVA-3S Investigators Endarterectomy versus Angioplasty in Patients with Symptomatic Severe Carotid Stenosis (EVA-3S) is a French multicenter, non-inferiority randomized trial with national research organisation funding. In brief, patients are eligible if they have experienced a carotid TIA or non...

... trials to precisely determine the overall effect of surgery for different degrees of stenosis, identify subgroups in which benefit is increased, and use risk modeling to identify individuals at particularly high risk of stroke without surgery. Such an approach will also be useful in targeting angioplasty...

...Alberto Gil-Peralta; Alejandro González; José R. González-Marcos; Antonio Mayol; Fernando Boza; José Ruano; Aurelio Cayuela Angioplasty and stenting of the atheromatous internal carotid artery (ICA), besides in patients with a high surgical risk, may be indicated in specific cases...

...S. Debette; H. Hénon; J.Y. Gauvrit; S. Haulon; M.A. Mackowiak-Cordoliani; C. Gautier; D. Deplanque; C. Lucas; X. Leclerc; M. Koussa; J.P. Pruvo; D. Leys Background: Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) is sometimes used as an alternative to surgery, despite the lack of evidence for its safety...

...Andreas Kastrup; Martin Skalej; Hilmar Krapf; Thomas Nägele; Johannes Dichgans; Jörg B. Schulz Background: Evidence is accumulating that carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) might become an alternative to carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for the treatment of high-grade carotid artery disease (CAD...

... of local intra-arterial fibrinolysis (LIF) and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). LIF was performed in 83 patients with angiographically established acute VBO. A significant residual stenosis after LIF was treated by additional PTA in 8 patients. The types of occlusion were classified as either...

...David Sai Wah Ho; Yan Wang; Michele Chui; Yiqing Wang; Shu Leong Ho; Raymond Tak Fai Cheung Background: Abciximab, a platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonist, prevents ischemic complications during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and was recently shown to open occluded...

... ranging from headaches, fits, confusion, focal neurological signs to intracerebral hemorrhage. Although percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and stenting are increasingly performed as an alternative to CEA in the treatment of carotid artery stenosis, few cases of cerebral hyperperfusion injury...

... left vertebral artery, a tight stenosis at the origin of the right vertebral artery and non-patent left posterior communicating artery. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty to the right vertebral stenosis results in a good angiographic result, and remission of symptoms which has persisted for 1 year...

...Benedikt G.H. Schoser; Veit U. Becker; Bernd Eckert; Hermann Zeumer; Andreas Thie Experience of the long-term outcome of patients treated with carotid balloon angioplasty is limited. Therefore, we prospectively analyzed the ultrasonic and clinical features of 29 patients with complete follow-up...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Angioplasty Carotid stenosis Doppler Recurrent occlusion Stroke Cerebrovascular Diseases Cerebrovasc Dis 1997;7(suppl 1): 16-21 Martin C...

...B. Eckert; F.E. Zanella; A. Thie; J. Steinmetz; H. Zeumer A total of 61 percutaneous transluminal angioplasties (PTAs) have been performed in 58 patients with symptomatic severe stenosis of the internal carotid artery in our department since 1990. Forty-nine PTAs were successful (residual stenosis...