PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yu, W.
AU  - Binder, D.
AU  - Foster-Barber, A.
AU  - Malek, R.
AU  - Smith, W. S.
AU  - Higashida, R. T.
TI  - Endovascular embolectomy of acute basilar artery occlusion
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.61.10.1421
DP  - 2003 Nov 25
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1421--1423
VI  - 61
IP  - 10
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/61/10/1421.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/61/10/1421.full
SO  - Neurology2003 Nov 25; 61
AB  - Acute basilar artery occlusion has a mortality rate approaching 90%. The authors describe a case of acute basilar artery occlusion managed successfully with endovascular embolectomy. A 31-year-old man sought treatment for confusion, dysarthria, and right-sided weakness. He soon became unresponsive and was found to have a vertebral artery dissection and an associated basilar artery embolism. The dissection was managed with endovascular stenting, and the basilar artery embolus was removed with a clot retriever at 7 hours. The patient recovered without neurologic deficit.