Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2007 Aug;17(3):355–ix. doi: 10.1016/j.nic.2007.05.001

TABLE 1.

Author N Vessel Technical
Success		 Major Peri- Procedural
Complications		 Follow-up Period and
Events
Jiang 2003 55 42 ICA,
MCA,
VA, B		 40/42 (95%) 4/42 (10%) “complication
and death”		 Median 8 months, 39 free of
ischemic symptoms
restenosis 0/7 at 6 months, 0/4
at 12 months
Zhang 2003 54 48 ICA,
MCA
VA, B		 46/48 (96%) 4/48 (8%) – 2 vessel
rupture, 1 acute stent
thrombosis, 1 perforate
vessel occlusion		 “short term follow-up showed
good clinical improvement”
Liu 2004 53 46 ICA,
MCA
VA,B		 49/50 (98%) 1/46 (2%) SAH
1 (2%) extracranial carotid
dissection requiring a stent		 37/37 patients followed for a
mean of 8.5 months were free
of TIAs
de Rochemont 2004 52 18 ICA,
MCA
VA, B		 18 /20
(90%)
stenoses		 30 day combined stroke and
death = 6%		 0 recurrent events in 6 months
Jiang 2004
56 		40 MCA 41/42 (98%) 3/40 (8%) – 3 SAH (1
fatal), 1acute occlusion Rx
with lytics without sequelae		 Median 10 months: 0/38 had
TIA or stroke, restenosis in
1/8 vessels
Lylyk 2005
57 		106 ICA,
MCA
VA, B		 104/106
(98%)		 30 day stroke (6/104; 5.7%)
and death (4/104; 3.7%)		 Restenosis in 7/58 (12%)

VA = vertebral artery; B = basilar artery; ICA = internal carotid artery; MCA = middle cerebral artery; SAH = subarachnoid hemorrhage, * data yet to be published