The Wingspan Stent: Safe Intra-Cranial Angioplasty?

The Wingspan Stent: Safe Intra-Cranial Angioplasty?

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FELIPE ALBUQUERQUE, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix REFERENCE: Abstract 102 The Wingspan stent is a new approach to keeping open the atherosclerotic intracranial vessels of stroke and TIA patie

Felipe Albuquerque

FELIPE ALBUQUERQUE, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix

REFERENCE: Abstract 102The Wingspan stent is a new approach to keeping open the atherosclerotic intracranial vessels of stroke and TIA patients. Early results presented to the San Francisco Conference suggest that it doesn’t harm patients, but that it seemed to block fairly quickly,Felipe Albuquerquetalked to Helen Morant about these much anticipated results.

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