Early and long-term mechanical complications after carotid artery stenting
Vladimir Keča, Tatjana Šutilović, Vladimir Cvetić, Jelena Keča-Klašnja, Lazar B Davidović · 2026
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Description
Keča and colleagues report in 2026 two mechanical failures of carotid artery stenting, the procedure that props open a narrowed neck artery with a metal mesh tube. One failure struck during the operation itself; the other arrived years later.
In the first case, the protective filter device used to catch debris became hooked on the freshly placed stent and could not be pulled out. In the second, the stent had fractured and a clot had formed inside it, producing symptoms. Both patients were rescued with open surgery: the surgeons removed the stent-bearing segment of artery and replaced it with a six-millimeter synthetic graft. Both grafts were still open at a mean follow-up of eight years. The authors stress that mechanical complications are commoner than believed and need immediate surgery when they occur during the procedure.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vladimir Keča, Tatjana Šutilović, Vladimir Cvetić, Jelena Keča-Klašnja, Lazar B Davidović |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |