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Endovascular management of carotid and vertebral artery dissections with new generation double-mesh stent and protection systems – single-center earl…

2019

Introduction Symptomatic dissections (SD) of cervical arteries are still a therapeutic problem. Although endovascular management (EM) is currently a preferred method of treatment of SD, complications associated with this method of treatment in published reports are quite frequent (3-16%). Aim In this retrospective study we analyzed the results of EM with novel, double-mesh stent and protection systems (PS) for SD of the internal carotid (IC) or vertebral arteries (VA) that coexisted with hemodynamically significant stenosis or aneurysmatic dilatation of the dissected artery. Material and methods We evaluated the results of EM in 19 patients (men 15, median age: 55, range: 25-83), presenting…