CARDIOVASCULAR: The Wingspan Stent: Safe Intra-Cranial Angioplasty?

Audio Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine The Wingspan Stent: Safe Intra-Cranial Angioplasty? REFERENCE: Abstract 102 FELIPE ALBUQUERQUE, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix The Wingspan stent is a new approach to keeping open the atherosclerotic intracranial vessels of stroke and TIA patients. Early results presented to the San Francisco Conference suggest that it doesn’t harm patients, but that it seemed to block fairly quickly, Felipe Albuquerque talked to Helen Morant about these much anticipated results.