We report our initial experience of carotid and vertebral stenting. Three haemodynamically significant extra-cranial lesions (% diameter stenosis >70) in 3 clinically symptomatic patients were treated by stenting between March 1996 and September 1996.
Two lesions of the internal carotid arteries were ostial and in one case a subtotal stenosis and ostial lesion of the vertebral artery were observed.
All lesions looked more widely and smoothly dilated by stenting than by ordinary standard balloon angioplasty.
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