Transluminal Angioplasty for Vertebral Basilar Artery Stenosis

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Abstract
In recent years, the development and application of a balloon catheter technique for dilating arterial stenoses (transluminal angioplasty) has generated considerable interest. This technique has been successfully employed to reduce symptomatic stenoses in the coronary [7], renal [8, 9], and iliofemoral [2, 8] arteries. Relief of symptomatic stenoses in other arterial systems is currently under consideration or initial trials. This report describes our initial experience with balloon catheter dilatation of intracranial vertebral or basilar artery stenoses in four patients with severe brains stem, cerebellar, or posterior cerebral symptoms poorly responsive to medical or prior surgical therapy. Keywords Vertebral Artery Basilar Artery Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Superior Cerebellar Artery Left Vertebral Artery These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.