Endovascular Treatment of Symptomatic Intracranial Arterial Stenosis: Six-Year Experience in a Single-Center Series of 42 Consecutive Patients With Acute and Mid-Term Results

Abstract

Endovascular treatment of symptomatic intracranial stenosis has significant overall morbidity and mortality rates. Nevertheless, the very critical natural history of severe refractory lesions and the relatively favorable postoperative evolution suggest that it should be considered the first alternative strategy in cases in which medical therapy has failed.