title: Use of mechanical extraction devices in basilar artery occlusion.
abstract: Three consecutive patients with embolic basilar artery occlusion were treated with endovascular mechanical thrombus extraction. Recanalisation was rapidly obtained in one patient, who had a good initial recovery, and in another patient who made a complete recovery. By contrast, recanalisation failed in the third patient, who made no recovery. No haemorrhagic complications were detected. This technique may have advantages over thrombolysis in both efficacy and safety.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France. pascal.favrole@lrb.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Favrole
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Saint-Maurice
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bousser
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Houdart
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004401:Dysarthria / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology