RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Endovascular embolectomy of acute basilar artery occlusion
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 1421
OP 1423
DO 10.1212/WNL.61.10.1421
VO 61
IS 10
A1 Yu, W.
A1 Binder, D.
A1 Foster-Barber, A.
A1 Malek, R.
A1 Smith, W. S.
A1 Higashida, R. T.
YR 2003
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/61/10/1421.abstract
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.