We appreciate the interest of Drs Ueda and Yuh in our article Intracranial Angioplasty: Experience and Complication. We agree that submaximal percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of intracranial arteries with balloons inflated slowly and at low pressure is probably a safer technique, because it is less traumatic to the intima and media of treated arteries. Nevertheless, only careful long-term follow-up in a larger series of patients can determine the efficacy and restenosis rate with this approach.
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