TY - JOUR
T1 - Basilar artery rethrombosis
T2 - Successful treatment with platelet glycoprotein IIB/IIIA receptor inhibitor
AU - Wallace, Robert C.
AU - Furlan, Anthony J.
AU - Moliterno, David J.
AU - Stevens, Glen H.J.
AU - Masaryk, Thomas J.
AU - Perl, John
PY - 1997/8
Y1 - 1997/8
N2 - Summary: We describe the use of abciximab to prevent rethrombosis of the basilar artery after transluminal angioplasty. A 60-year-old patient with vertebral basilar insufficiency and acute occlusion of the basilar artery underwent revascularization with urokinase and angioplasty. Despite the repeated use of urokinase and angioplasty under anticoagulation with heparin, the basilar artery immediately rethrombosed. In a final attempt to prevent rethrombosis, abciximab was administered before the final angioplasty, resulting in a widely patent basilar artery and no rethrombosis.
AB - Summary: We describe the use of abciximab to prevent rethrombosis of the basilar artery after transluminal angioplasty. A 60-year-old patient with vertebral basilar insufficiency and acute occlusion of the basilar artery underwent revascularization with urokinase and angioplasty. Despite the repeated use of urokinase and angioplasty under anticoagulation with heparin, the basilar artery immediately rethrombosed. In a final attempt to prevent rethrombosis, abciximab was administered before the final angioplasty, resulting in a widely patent basilar artery and no rethrombosis.
KW - Arterial
KW - Arteries
KW - Thrombosis
KW - Transluminal angioplasty
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M3 - Article
C2 - 9282851
AN - SCOPUS:0031545897
SN - 0195-6108
VL - 18
SP - 1257
EP - 1260
JO - American Journal of Neuroradiology
JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology
IS - 7
ER -