title: Stenting for a symptomatic posterior cerebral artery stenosis.
abstract: Evolvement of endovascular devices and increase of operator expertise have made angioplasty and stenting in intracranial vessels technically possible. Stenting has been reported in treating stenosis in middle and anterior cerebral arteries with favorable outcomes. However, the feasibility of stenting for stenosis in posterior cerebral artery (PCA) has not been established. We report a patient with progressive focal cerebral ischemic symptoms, which were arrested after reconstruction of the associated PCA stenosis with stenting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. gelinxu@gmail.com
authors.forename: Gelin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Zhiming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xinfeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography / Q000379:methods; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D006801:Humans; D020762:Infarction, Posterior Cerebral Artery / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008670:Metals; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D008670:Metals