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While aggressive medical management is the mainstay of treatment, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and intracranial stenting (ICS) are increasingly used, especially in cases refractory to medical therapy or as a bailout during frustrating thrombectomy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To evaluate the safety, technical feasibility, and short-term outcomes of NeuroSpeed balloon-catheter angioplasty and CREDO heal stent implantation in patients with symptomatic ICAS with and without large or medium vessel occlusion (LVO\/MeVO).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This retrospective, dual-center study included 42 patients who underwent ICS using the NeuroSpeed balloon-catheter and fibrin-heparin coated CREDO heal stent. Patients were divided into two subgroups: ICAS (\n                      <jats:italic>n\u2009=<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u200923) and Bailout stenting (\n                      <jats:italic>n\u2009=<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u200919). Procedural success with a stenosis grade reduction to\u2009\u2264\u200950%, complication rates, and clinical outcomes were analyzed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Technical success was achieved in 83% of cases. Clinical improvement was significant between baseline and follow-up, with a reduction in the median modified Rankin Scale score from 2 to 0 (\n                      <jats:italic>p\u2009=<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u20090.005). Acute stent occlusion occurred in 2 of 19 patients (10.5%) in the bailout group. Late vascular follow-up imaging was available in 30 patients; two asymptomatic delayed stent occlusions occurred in the ICAS group (2\/23, 8.7%) and two cases of in-stent restenosis in the bailout group (2\/19, 10.5%). Procedure-related intracranial hemorrhage occurred in one patient in the ICAS group (1\/23, 4.3%) and one patient in the bailout group (1\/19, 5.3%). One access-site pseudoaneurysm (1\/42, 2.4%) was observed.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>NeuroSpeed\/CREDO-based intracranial stenting appears to be a technically feasible treatment for high-grade ICAS and as a bailout during thrombectomy, with favorable short-term clinical outcomes and acceptable complication rates. Further prospective studies are warranted to assess long-term safety, efficacy, and durability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s00234-026-04181-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]],"date-time":"2026-09-15T06:37:25Z","timestamp":1789454245000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Angioplasty and stenting of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: a dual-center experience using NeuroSpeed balloon-catheter and CREDO heal stent"],"prefix":"10.1007","author":[{"given":"Tawfik Moher","family":"Alsady","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-2819-4623","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdallah","family":"Aburub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Oussama","family":"Dob","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andr\u00e9","family":"Kemmling","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-4233-8048","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad","family":"Almohammad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,15]]},"reference":[{"issue":"9913","key":"4181_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"245","DOI":"10.1016\/s0140-6736(13)61953-4","volume":"383","author":"VL Feigin","year":"2014","unstructured":"Feigin VL, Forouzanfar MH, Krishnamurthi R, Mensah GA, Connor M, Bennett DA et al (2014) Global and regional burden of stroke during 1990\u20132010: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. 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