...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...

...Q. Yin; Y. Li; X. Fan; M. Ma; G. Xu; X. Liu; W. Zhu Objective: To determine the procedural feasibility and safety of carotid angioplasty and stent placement of carotid artery dissection (CAD) patients who had failed antithrombotic therapy in acute dissection. Methods: A series of 33 con secutive...

... that this category of patients is at high-risk of stroke regardless of method of carotid intervention. Between January 1993 and April 2003 all patients who underwent carotid angioplasty with or without carotid artery stenting from a single centre were assessed. Patients were considered to be at high-risk from CEA...

... in clinical outcome. Methods: Patients who underwent carotid angioplasty with or without stenting for symptomatic ≧70% carotid artery stenosis secondary to atherosclerosis were included. 333 procedures were performed, i.e. angioplasty alone (86), stent without cerebral protection (150) and stent with cerebral...

...Chien-Jung Lu; Hsien-Li Kao; Yu Sun; Hon-Man Liu; Jiann-Shing Jeng; Ping-Keung Yip; Yuan-Teh Lee Background: Stenting has been used as an alternative treatment for patients with internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. Color-coded duplex sonography (CDS) is able to measure not only the prestenting...

...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...

... superior ophthalmic veins. Endovascular occlusion of the fistula was achieved with preservation of the ICA by stent deployment over the rupture site of the ICA, as two detachable balloons could not obliterate the fistula while preserving the ICA patent. Follow-up angiography 7 months after the endovascular...

...Jay S. Yadav Carotid endarterectomy can be regarded as the standard of care for low-risk patients with severe carotid stenosis; however, this technique is less appropriate for certain patient groups. For high-risk patients, carotid stenting currently represents a suitable alternative...

...B. Griewing; F. Brassel; U. von Smekal; M.T. Al Ahmar; Ch. Kessler Angioplasty and stenting (A/S) provide an alternative for patients with simultaneous severe cardiac and cerebrovascular disease, or with medical illnesses which carry a high perioperative risk. We conducted A/S in 20 high-risk...