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  • Title: [Endovascular treatment of carotid and vertebral arteries].
    Author: Ikäheimonen K, Vanninen R, Jäkälä P, Mäkinen K, Manninen H.
    Journal: Duodecim; 2010; 126(8):945-55. PubMed ID: 20597339.
    Abstract:
    Balloon angioplasty and stenting of extracranial carotid artery stenosis can be considered for symptomatic patients, if surgery carries an excessive risk or is contraindicated, if the location of the stenosis is inaccessible to surgical procedures, or the neck is scarred or damaged by radiation therapy. The indications of vertebrobasilar stenosis have not become established, but the treatment has been applied in TIA cases of the vertebrobasilar region, when the patient has presented symptoms of disturbances of cerebral circulation and there has been an at least 70 percent stenosis of the dominant vertebral artery.
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