Table 1.

Summary of coronary stent studies used for treatment of intracranial stenosis.

Study	Type	Subjects	30-day outcomes	Long-term outcomes	Restenosis rates
Mori et al. (2000)	Retrospective	10	No stroke or death	No ischemic events at 11 months	No restenosis at 3 months
Gomez et al. (2000)	Retrospective	12	No stroke or death	2 patients had a TIA at 6 months	2/12 had F/U, 1 had basilar occlusion at 4 months
Mazighi et al. (2008)	Retrospective	53*	10% stroke or death	6% TIA or stroke at 2 years	16% at 1 year
Abou-Chebl et al. (2005)**	Retrospective	8	1 patient had TIA	No stroke or TIAs at 11 months	No restenosis at 10 months
Qureshi et al. (2006)**	Retrospective	18	1 stroke, no deaths	22% at 14 months	14% at 14 months
Gupta et al. (2006)**	Retrospective	26 of 29 attempted	12% stroke or dissection	5% stroke at 4 months	5% at 4 months
Steinfort et al. (2007)**	Retrospective	13	8% stroke	8% stroke at 11 months	9/12 had F/U with 0% at 5 months
Natarajan et al. (2010)***	Retrospective	6	17% stroke	0% at 4–10 months	0% at 6 months

*Only 76% of patients were treated with stents.

**Studies using drug-eluting stents.

***Second generation drug-eluting stent.