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Abstract 225: Rescue Stenting for Posterior Circulation Strokes

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Rescue treatment with stenting, balloon angioplasty, and/or intraarterial thrombolysis or antiplatelets are often required to treat the underlying stenosis. 4 Recent literature has reported clinical benefits associated with rescue stenting in the setting of ICAD‐related MT‐refractory strokes.5

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Chest pain, resolved. Does it need emergent cath lab activation (some controversy here)? And much much more.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A comparison of electrocardiographic changes during reperfusion of acute myocardial infarction by thrombolysis or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Here are other very interesting posts: Wellens' syndrome: to stent or not? Am Heart J. 2000;139:430–436. Pattern B — was the more common form in the original Wellens’ report.

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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Dormu performed an aortogram of the bilateral lower extremity with bilateral iliac runoff, which revealed a 90% stenosis of the right superficial femoral artery and 100% occlusion of all three tibial vessels. These studies revealed an 80% stenosis of the left superficial femoral artery and 100% occlusion of all three tibial vessels.

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Concerning EKG with a Non-obstructive angiogram. What happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

link] A 62 year old man with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and carotid artery stenosis called 911 at 9:30 in the morning with complaint of chest pain. The image on the left shows the LAD before intervention, and the red circled portion on the right indicates the stented region.

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Abstract 213: Successful Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke With Pre?interventional Thrombolysis?Induced Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Case Report

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

CT angiography (CTA) showed near occlusive stenosis of the left carotid bulb with an acute thrombus within Supraclinoid Internal Carotid Artery (ICA) extending into the Left MCA and origin of Left Anterior Cerebral Artery (ACA). He underwent single pass complete recanalization, TICI 2C using Stent retriever and aspiration.

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If you had recorded an ECG during chest pain, what would it have shown?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Characteristic electrocardiographic pattern indicating a critical stenosis high in left anterior descending coronary artery in patients admitted because of impending myocardial infarction. Wellens' original Papers : de Zwaan C, Bär FW, Wellens HJ. Am Heart J. 1982 Apr;103(4 Pt 2):730-6. de Zwaan C et al. Am Heart J. 2000 Mar;139(3):430-6.

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International Stroke Conference 2024 to Present High-Profile Late-Breaking Science

DAIC

Late-Breaking Science sessions and concurrent oral abstract presentations are as follows: Wed., 7 Late-Breaking Science Oral Abstracts I (beginning at 2:00 p.m. MT) TESLA: The Thrombectomy for Emergent Salvage of Large Anterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke Trial: 1-Year Outcome: Osama Zaidat, Mercy Health St.

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