title: Symptomatic Wingspan stent stenosis and occlusion: stent-in-stent rescue.
abstract: The use of the Wingspan stent in severe intracranial stenosis is associated with a relatively high in-stent re-stenosis rate. Reported management strategies for re-stenosis have included angioplasty alone or angioplasty with placement of a second Wingspan stent. A case is presented in which thrombosis within a Wingspan stent was treated with a balloon expandable cobalt-chromium stent within the Wingspan stent. Subsequent follow-up imaging has shown persistent patency of the treated vessel, with no subsequent in-stent stenosis.
authors: University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA.
authors: Tri M
authors: TM
authors: Le
authors: John R
authors: JR
authors: Gaughen
authors: Mary E
authors: ME
authors: Jensen
authors: Avery J
authors: AJ
authors: Evans
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000379:methods; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D019233:Retreatment; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*