title: Intracranial stenting in arterial occlusive disease.
abstract: The results of endovascular treatment of symptomatic intracranial arteriosclerotic stenosis with stenosis grades exceeding 70% show a mortality rate of 2% and severe morbidity of 8.3%. This justifies treatment being performed by experienced interventionalists only in selected cases, if the prospective outcome of pharmacotherapy alone indicates a higher risk (i.e., symptomatic stenosis, severe perfusion disturbances).
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich Heine University, Moorenstraße 5, Düsseldorf, Germany. bernd.turowski@uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Turowski
mesh_terms: D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D015607:Stents; D013812:Therapeutics; D016896:Treatment Outcome