Rami Z Morsi, Sonam Thind, Ahmad Chahine, Jehad Zakaria, Harsh Desai, Sachin A Kothari, Atman P Shah, Sandeep Nathan, Elisheva Coleman, Scott Mendelson, James E Siegler, Shyam Prabhakaran, Ali Mansour, Tareq Kass-Hout
BACKGROUND: The use of covered stent grafts for the treatment of carotid rupture is increasingly being used given their ability to preserve the parent artery while simultaneously occluding the fistula or rupture point. METHODS: This case series describes the technical feasibility of using, and the performance of, the PK Papyrus covered coronary stent (Biotronik, Inc., Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA) in six patients with carotid rupture, including carotid cavernous fistulas, between July 2021 and October 2023 in a single-center institution in the USA...
January 3, 2024: Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery