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01-05-2004 | Interventional Neuroradiology

Thalamic hemorrhage following carotid angioplasty and stenting

Authors: Jonathan A. Friedman, David F. Kallmes, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Published in: Neuroradiology | Issue 5/2004

Abstract

Carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) has emerged as an alternative treatment of carotid stenosis for patients poorly suited for endarterectomy. Intracerebral hemorrhage following carotid revascularization is rare and thought to be related to hyperperfusion injury in most cases. Early experience suggests an increased incidence of hemorrhage following CAS as compared to endarterectomy. We describe a patient who suffered a thalamic hemorrhage following CAS. Because this hemorrhage occurred in a vascular territory unlikely to have been supplied by the treated artery, this case suggests that the mechanism of intracerebral hemorrhage following CAS may in some cases be different from the hyperperfusion hemorrhage classically described following endarterectomy.

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Title: Thalamic hemorrhage following carotid angioplasty and stenting
Authors: Jonathan A. Friedman
David F. Kallmes
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Publication date: 01-05-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Neuroradiology / Issue 5/2004
Print ISSN: 0028-3940
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1920
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-004-1199-x

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