Endovascular Stent-Graft Repair of Traumatic Carotid Artery Pseudoaneurysm

Endovascular Treatment of Carotid and Vertebral Pseudoaneurysms with Covered Stents

“…However, even with secondary coiling through a bare stent, Layton et al 5 showed that an ICA pseudoaneurysm can continue to opacify and enlarge. Patel et al 11 believe there is always potential for pseudoaneurysm recanalization when using bare stents, even with secondary coiling of the pseudoaneurysm.…”

Treatment of a Recurrent Internal Carotid Artery Pseudoaneurysm with the Wallgraft Endoprosthesis

“…To the best of our knowledge there have been seven reports describing the use of the Wallgraft prosthesis for the treatment of carotid artery pseudoaneurysms of varying aetiologies in a total of 14 patients [4][5][6][7][8]16,17 . Clinical follow up was performed in all patients and ranged from one month to two years.…”

“…In recent years there have been a number of reports describing the use of endovascular techniques for the treatment of traumatic carotid artery pseudoaneurysms [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] . Covered stents have gained interest due to their ability to completely obliterate the aneurysm whilst maintaining patency of the parent vessel.…”

Local Delivery of Antiproliferative Agents via Stents

“…Since nonpolarity and nonreactivity of PTFE provide the unique property in suppressing both thromboticity and pseudointimal proliferation when the material is placed in a humane body, PTFE is known as one of the best hemocompatible polymers and thus is useful in stent-graft, which is placed inside an aorta to treat aortic aneurysms and dissections. Since e-PTFE tube with various diameter and thickness are commercially available and the tube is able to be cut to the size of the stent and to be sutured, e-PTFE has been used in a wide range of clinical application including transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), gastrointestinal stent, coronary stent, renal artery stent, and prostatic (urethral) stent [3][4][5][6][7][8]13,48,49].…”

“…A stent is a cylindrical medical device usually made of metallic or polymeric wires that could be placed in the blood vessel [1][2][3][4][5][6] and the non-vascular lumen including gastrointestinal, upper respiratory, and urinary tract to alleviate the symptoms caused by the stenosis [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Since stenting has been demonstrated to be one of the most successful treatment modality in the interventional medicine, the application range of stenting has been expanding fast.…”