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Treatment Of Symptomatic Middle Cerebral Artery Stenosis With Balloon-mounted Stents: Long-term Follow-up At A Single Center by Zhongrong R. Miao; Lei Feng; Shengmao Li; Fengshui Zhu; Xunming Ji; Liqun Jiao; Feng Ling is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Abstract OBJECTIVE Primary stenting is a well-established treatment for coronary artery disease and has been applied to symptomatic intracranial stenosis in selected patients. This study reports a large case series of middle cerebral artery revascularization using balloon-mounted coronary stents. METHODS The series consisted of 113 consecutive patients with symptomatic middle cerebral artery stenosis and more than 70% occlusion who underwent intracranial stenting at a single center from 2001 to 2006. Technical success, periprocedural complications, recurrent symptoms, and restenosis were retrospectively reviewed. Risk factors for restenosis were analyzed using logistic regression and the χ2 test. RESULTS The mean age of the patients was 48 ± 11 years (range, 25–79 years). Seventy-three patients presented with transient ischemic attacks, and 40 patients were diagnosed with acute stroke. The technical success rate was 96.46%. The mean stenosis was reduced from 80.83 ± 8.77% to 3.71 ± 8.15%. The rate of stroke and death within 30 days was 4.42%. Eighty-nine patients were followed for an average period of 29 ± 16 months (range, 9 months–5 years). Seventy-nine vessels were followed with

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Author

Zhongrong R. Miao; Lei Feng; Shengmao Li; Fengshui Zhu; Xunming Ji; Liqun Jiao; Feng Ling

Publisher

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; Oxford University Press; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.; Oxford University Press (OUP); Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (ISSN 0148-396X)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)