Flow failure from intracranial atherosclerotic disease: A rationale for endovascular intervention in a population with recurrent symptoms despite maximal medical therapy

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Fargen, Kyle Michael ^a   Velat, Gregory J ^a   Lawson, Matthew Franklin ^a   Khanna, Anna Y ^a   Hoh, Brian ^a   Mocco, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSARTHRIA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REHABILITATION CARE; WEAKNESS;

ANEURYSM; ARTERY; CATHETER; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879407479     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2012-010275     Document Type: Article

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