PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - F. Clarençon
AU  - F. Di Maria
AU  - J. Gabrieli
AU  - E. Shotar
AU  - V. Degos
AU  - A. Nouet
AU  - A. Biondi
AU  - N.-A. Sourour
TI  - Clinical Impact of Flat Panel Volume CT Angiography in Evaluating the Accurate Intraoperative Deployment of Flow-Diverter Stents
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A5343
DP  - 2017 Oct 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1966--1972
VI  - 38
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/10/1966.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/10/1966.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2017 Oct 01; 38
AB  - BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The deployment of flow-diverter stents may be difficult to analyse on regular DSA. The purpose of our study was to investigate the clinical impact of stent-dedicated flat panel volume CT angiography to evaluate intraoperatively the satisfactory deployment of flow-diverter stents.MATERIALS AND METHODS: From January 2009 to April 2015, 83 consecutive patients (mean age, 51 years; 62 women) were treated in our institution with flow-diverter stents. Eighty-seven aneurysms (82 unruptured, 5 ruptured; 77 anterior, 10 posterior circulation) were treated in these 83 patients (4 patients had 2 aneurysms, both treated by means of flow-diverter stents). One patient was treated for a traumatic carotid cavernous fistula. In 80% of the cases (68/85) a flat panel volume CT angiography was performed in the angiographic suite just after the flow-diverter stent deployment. Stent visualization was assessed by 2 independent reviewers. The clinical impact of stent malapposition was evaluated.RESULTS: Flow-diverter stent visualization was satisfactory in 73.5% of the cases. In 2 cases (2.9%) the flat panel volume CT angiography prompted the operator to perform an additional intrastent angioplasty for a condition that was previously underestimated. Four patients (4.7%) experienced acute thromboembolic complications; 3 others had delayed thromboembolic complications. Only 1 of these patients had thromboembolic complications (acute or delayed) related to stent misdeployment, which was easily managed intraoperatively with no clinical consequence.CONCLUSIONS: Flat panel volume CT angiography is an interesting tool to depict flow-diverter stent misdeployment and may encourage the operator to perform intrastent angioplasty (2.9% of the cases in our experience) to reduce the risks of thromboembolic complications.FDSflow-diverter stentFPV-CTAflat panel volume CT angiography