title: Carotid Artery Stenting Successfully Prevents Progressive Stroke Due to Mobile Plaque.
abstract: We report a case of progressive ischemic stroke due to a mobile plaque, in which carotid artery stenting successfully prevented further infarctions. A 78-year-old man developed acute multiple infarcts in the right hemisphere, and a duplex ultrasound showed a mobile plaque involving the bifurcation of the left common carotid artery. Maximal medical therapy failed to prevent further infarcts, and the number of infarcts increased with his neurological deterioration. Our present case suggests that the deployment of a closed-cell stent is effective to prevent the progression of the ischemic stroke due to the mobile plaque.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oomura
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Chikako
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshimasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Chise
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anan
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Nagoya City East Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Kaoru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kamimoto
keywords: Carotid artery stenting; Mobile plaque; Stroke in evolution