title: Long-term outcome of endovascular stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosis.
abstract: Eighteen patients underwent stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosis. There were three major periprocedural complications (16.7%) without fatality. At a mean 26.7 +/- 12.1-month follow-up, 15 patients (83.3%) had an excellent long-term outcome. Only one patient (5.6%) had moderate disability from recurrent stroke, and two patients died of medical illness at 30 and 36 months after stenting. In this uncontrolled study, stenting appeared to be effective in reducing stroke risk and death and worthy of further scrupulous trial.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurovascular Service, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. WYU_1998@yahoo.com
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: N U
authors.initials: NU
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Cullen
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dowd
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Halbach
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Higashida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D020526:Brain Stem Infarctions / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015996:Survival Rate; D013995:Time; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*