Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Medical therapy and endovascular therapy for intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) have evolved over the past two decades with improved medical therapy benchmarks, and improved techniques and patient selection for stenting.

Stent 40

Stent Stents Inpatient Angioplasty 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:For a subset of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with large vessel occlusion (LVO) mechanical thrombectomy with a stent retriever and/or aspiration is insufficient to revascularize the target artery. Rescue therapy with angioplasty alone or with stenting has been utilized.

Angioplasty 40

Angioplasty Stents Stent Inpatient 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

His inpatient clinicians did not think that an urgent angiogram was warranted given that he was chest pain free, his EKG appeared nondiagnostic, and serial troponins were not elevating beyond 2 ug/L. The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. There was initially TIMI 0 flow.

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Chest Pain Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Arrest Ischemia 52