Cerebrovascular reserve before and after vertebral artery angioplasty

G Gahn, A Richter, H Bourquain… - American journal …, 1999 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
The selection of patients with severe vertebrobasilar artery stenosis for angioplasty is based
mainly on clinical experience rather than on controlled data. We present a patient with …

Hemodynamic evaluation of the effect of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for atherosclerotic disease of the vertebrobasilar arterial system

H TOUHO, J KARASAWA - Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 1998 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The relationship between clinical improvement after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
(PTA) and hemodynamic condition in vertebrobasilar insufficiency was evaluated in 43 …

[HTML][HTML] A method for quantifying angiographic severity of extracranial vertebral artery stenosis

AI Qureshi - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Vertebral artery origin stenosis is a common occurrence among patients with ischemic
events in the vertebral and basilar arterial distribution [1, 2]. Of the 407 patients in the New …

Intracranial vertebrobasilar stenosis: angioplasty and follow-up

HC Nahser, H Henkes, W Weber… - American journal …, 2000 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: When medication fails to improve symptoms of
atherosclerotic stenosis of the intracranial vertebral and basilar arteries, percutaneous …

Hemodynamic evaluation of basilar and vertebral artery angioplasty

KH Guppy, FT Charbel, LA Corsten, M Zhao… - Neurosurgery, 2002 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: The postangioplasty evaluation of a stenotic vessel is often conducted by
studying serial angiograms to determine the anatomic reduction in stenosis. In flow-limiting …

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the vertebral artery. A therapeutic alternative to operative reconstruction of proximal vertebral artery stenoses

H Brückmann, EB Ringelstein, H Buchner… - Journal of neurology, 1986 - Springer
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of the proximal vertebral artery was performed
in 13 patients with stenosis of the proximal vertebral arteries. All of these patients had …

Wingspan stenting of symptomatic extracranial vertebral artery stenosis and perioperative evaluation using quantitative magnetic resonance angiography: report of …

JL Brisman - Neurosurgical focus, 2008 - thejns.org
✓ The best management strategy for symptomatic vertebrobasilar ischemia is currently not
well-defined. Noninvasive Optimal Vessel Analysis (NOVA, VasSol, Inc.) is computer …

Hyperperfusion phenomenon after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for atherosclerotic stenosis of the intracranial vertebral artery: case report

K Bando, K Satoh, S Matsubara, M Nakatani… - Journal of …, 2001 - thejns.org
✓ The authors report on a patient who underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
(PTA) for stenosis of the intracranial vertebral artery (VA). This 67-year-old man's dizziness …

Accuracy of color-Doppler in the quantification of proximal vertebral artery stenoses

JM De Bray, A Pasco, F Tranquart, X Papon… - Cerebrovascular …, 2001 - karger.com
Background: Vertebrobasilar (VB) strokes appear to have the same causes as carotid
strokes. Obstructive lesions of proximal vertebral arteries probably occur in about 30% of …

Vertebral artery angioplasty in patients younger than 55 years: long-term follow-up

G Giangola, AM Imparato, TS Riles… - Annals of Vascular …, 1991 - Elsevier
Since 1964 we have performed 136 vertebral artery reconstructions representing 4% of all
operations on extracranial cerebral arteries by our staff. Fifteen of our patients were under …