RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Basilar artery rethrombosis: successful treatment with platelet glycoprotein IIB/IIIA receptor inhibitor.
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 1257
OP 1260
VO 18
IS 7
A1 Wallace, R C
A1 Furlan, A J
A1 Moliterno, D J
A1 Stevens, G H
A1 Masaryk, T J
A1 Perl, J
YR 1997
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/7/1257.abstract
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.