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Percutaneous treatment of symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis with coronary stents
Author(s) -
Drescher Peter,
Katzen Barry T.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.1085
Subject(s) - medicine , vertebral artery , percutaneous , stenosis , stent , basilar artery , vertebrobasilar insufficiency , radiology , coronary artery disease , surgery , cardiology
Atherosclerotic disease of the vertebral artery can pose a significant clinical problem. The treatment of that disease is not uniformly accepted. We report two cases of patients with vertebral basilar insufficiency due to stenosis of the vertebral artery origins and contralateral occlusions that were treated percutaneously with coronary stent placement. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2001;52:373–377. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.