Rescue angioplasty after failed intra-arterial thrombolysis in acute middle cerebral artery stroke: a case report.
Intra-arterial thrombolysis is increasingly being used in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke with a failure rate of recanalization as high as 66%. We describe a case of acute ischemic stroke secondary to occlusion of the middle cerebral artery that failed intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy but responded to rescue balloon angioplasty.
Agarwal
Pinky
P
NJ Neuroscience Institute, Edison, New Jersey, USA.
Borden
Neil
N
Tan
Walter A
WA
Sen
Souvik
S
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017130:Angioplasty; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery; D019233:Retreatment; D020521:Stroke / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome