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Acute vertebrobasilar artery thrombosis: long-term benefit of vertebral artery stenting
A Hassan1, T ul Haq, F Khimani
1Section of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, PO Box 3500, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
Abstract:
Acute vertebrobasilar artery occlusion is a life-threatening event, even after thrombolytic treatment with local intraarterial (IA) recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. We report a 70-year-old man with acute vertebral artery occlusion in which IA thrombolysis resulted in partial recanalisation and revealed pre-existing severe stenosis as the underlying cause. Stenosis was managed with stenting with excellent long-term clinical as well as angiographical outcomes.
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