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Patients were examined clinically at 1 to 3 and 6 to 12 months after angioplasty. Three (7.1%) permanent complications occurred, consisting of stroke in two cases and vessel rupture in one. There were four (9.5%) transient complications (&lt; 30 minutes): two cases of vessel spasm and two of cerebral ischemia. Clinical follow-up examination demonstrated improvement of symptoms in 39 cases (92.9%). Radiographic follow-up studies demonstrated three cases (7.1 %) of restenosis involving the proximal vertebral artery; two were treated by repeat angioplasty without complication, and the third is being followed clinically while the patient remains asymptomatic.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p content-type=\"fine-print\">In patients with significant atherosclerotic stenosis involving the vertebral or basilar artery territories, transluminal angioplasty may be of significant benefit in alleviating symptoms and improving blood flow to the posterior cerebral circulation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3171\/jns.1993.78.2.0192","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,27]],"date-time":"2009-05-27T15:36:01Z","timestamp":1243438561000},"page":"192-198","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":210,"title":["Transluminal angioplasty for atherosclerotic disease of the vertebral and basilar arteries"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"78","author":[{"given":"Randall T.","family":"Higashida","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fong Y.","family":"Tsai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Van V.","family":"Halbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher F.","family":"Dowd","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tony","family":"Smith","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kenneth","family":"Fraser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Grant B.","family":"Hieshima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"key":"b1","series-title":"Q J Med","first-page":"15","article-title":"The natural history of \u201cfocal cerebral vascular disease.\u201d","volume":"40","author":"Acheson","year":"1971"},{"key":"b2","series-title":"Stroke","first-page":"297","article-title":"Early diagnosis of basilar artery occlusion using magnetic resonance imaging.","volume":"19","author":"Biller","year":"1988"},{"key":"b3","series-title":"Circulation","first-page":"778","article-title":"Transluminal angioplasty: correlation of morphologic and angiographic findings in an experimental model.","volume":"61","author":"Block","year":"1980"},{"key":"b4","series-title":"AJNR","first-page":"791","article-title":"Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in arteriosclerotic internal carotid artery stenosis.","volume":"4","author":"Bockenheimer","year":"1983"},{"key":"b5","series-title":"AJR","first-page":"579","article-title":"MR imaging and spectroscopy in clinical and experimental cerebral ischemia: a review.","volume":"148","author":"Brant-Zawadzki","year":"1987"},{"key":"b6","series-title":"Mayo Clin Proc","first-page":"117","article-title":"Carotid and vertebral-basilar transient cerebral ischemic attacks. 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