Angioplasty of the Middle Cerebral Artery as a Treatment of Ischemic Stroke Developed in the Course of a Routine Diagnostic Angiography – A Case Report

Authors

  • Przemyslaw Nowakowski Department Vascular Surgery, American Heart of Poland, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Wojciech Uchto Department Vascular Surgery, American Heart of Poland, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Piotr Wolak Department Vascular Surgery, American Heart of Poland, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Zofia Nowakowska Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3941/jrcr.5323

Abstract

Neurological events are one of possible complications which may occur in the course of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures within aortic arch and coronary territory. The current case describes a patient in whom symptoms of massive stroke occurred immediately after routine coronary and peripheral angiography, treated by MCA angioplasty.

LMCA 1.5x15mm ballon angioplasty.

Downloads

Published

2024-11-13

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 9 (2024)

Section

Neuroradiology

License

Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Radiology Case Reports

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The publisher holds the copyright to the published articles and contents. However, the articles in this journal are open-access articles distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License, which permits reproduction and distribution, provided the original work is properly cited. The publisher and author have the right to use the text, images and other multimedia contents from the submitted work for further usage in affiliated programs. Commercial use and derivative works are not permitted, unless explicitly allowed by the publisher.