Second Generation Drug-Eluting Stents for Endovascular Treatment of Ostial Vertebral Artery Stenosis: A Single Center Experience

Second Generation Drug-Eluting Stents for Endovascular Treatment of Ostial Vertebral Artery Stenosis: A Single Center Experience

Objective: To report a single-center experience using drug-eluting balloon mounted stents (DES) for endovascular treatment of atherosclerotic ostial vertebral artery stenosis (OVAS).Background: Posterior circulation is affected in up to 25% of strokes, 20% of them resulting from atherosclerotic OVAS...

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Main Authors: Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Gloria V. Lopez, Randall C. Edgell, Aldo A. Mendez, Sudeepta Dandapat, Jorge A. Roa, Cynthia B. Zevallos, Andrea L. Holcombe, David Hasan, Colin P. Derdeyn, James Rossen, Edgar A. Samaniego
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
vertebral artery stenosis
extracranial atherosclerotic disease
stenting
drug eluting stent
restenosis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00746/full

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