DOI: 10.37349/en.2023.00019 ISSN:

Covered stent graft for treatment of carotid artery stenosis with post-stenotic aneurysm

Mosaad Soliman, Khaled Mowafy, Mostafa Abd Elgwad, Rosan Soliman, Reem Soliman
  • General Materials Science
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Fuel Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Medicine
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Environmental Science
  • General Medicine

Several bare metals, self-expanding stents have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat carotid stenosis, but no covered stents have been particularly examined or approved for carotid or cerebrovascular applications. Nonetheless, there are a number of potentially useful applications for covered stents in the brachiocephalic, carotid, and even intracranial arteries. As with currently accepted applications for bare metal carotid stents, the use of covered stents in carotid arteries has been reserved for patients who are at high risk for complications with open surgical management of their specific problem. The present case report emphasizes the safety and efficacy of covered stent in complex carotid artery reconstruction entailing stenosis and aneurysmal dilatation and through light on its impact on minimizing the risk of ischemic complications associated with endovascular or surgical carotid sacrifice.

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