PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Wallace, R C
AU  - Furlan, A J
AU  - Moliterno, D J
AU  - Stevens, G H
AU  - Masaryk, T J
AU  - Perl, J
TI  - Basilar artery rethrombosis: successful treatment with platelet glycoprotein IIB/IIIA receptor inhibitor.
DP  - 1997 Aug 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1257--1260
VI  - 18
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/7/1257.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/7/1257.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1997 Aug 01; 18
AB  - 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.