STENT-PTA delle stenosi di carotide “Estreme”

Abstract

To date, our series of PTA-STENT interventions to treat carotid artery stenosis comprises 170 consecutive patients. Of these, 30% had a degree of carotid stenosis between a residual lumen < 15% and virtual pre-occlusion. The overall historical mortality/morbidity of 3.4% in our series is deemed acceptable for selection in our series which includes only high surgical risk patients. In view of this, the paper gives a detailed description of the interventional technique routinely used to treat this subgroup of patients.