Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine (Sep 2022)

Use of covered stents to treat complex cerebrovascular diseases: Expert consensus

  • Yueqi Zhu,
  • Huaqiao Tan,
  • Zhongxue Wu,
  • Tielin Li,
  • Lianting Ma,
  • Jianmin Liu,
  • Hongqi Zhang,
  • Yuxiang Gu,
  • Tianxiao Li,
  • Sheng Guan,
  • Xiaodong Xie,
  • Chuhan Jiang,
  • Zhenwei Zhao,
  • Chuanzhi Duan,
  • Jieqing Wan,
  • Xiaolong Zhang,
  • Wenfeng Feng,
  • Xuying He,
  • Haibin Shi,
  • Qiujing Wang,
  • Dong Lin,
  • Qiuping Li,
  • Weixi Jiang,
  • Guohua Mao,
  • Shu Zhong,
  • E. Chen,
  • Huaizhang Shi,
  • Shaohua Ren,
  • Donghai Wang,
  • Yizhi Liu,
  • Zengpin Liu,
  • Jianliang Wu,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Xuebin Hu,
  • Jun Wang,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Wenfeng Cao,
  • Donghong Yang,
  • Qingrong Zhang,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Binxian Gu,
  • Guangsen Cheng,
  • Yongcheng Zhang,
  • Chun Fang,
  • Minghua Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.934496
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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The treatment of complex cerebrovascular diseases (CCVDs) at the skull base, such as complex intracranial aneurysms, carotid-cavernous sinus fistulas, and intracranial artery traumatic injuries, is a difficult clinical problem despite advances in endovascular and surgical therapies. Covered stents or stent graft insertion is a new concept for endovascular treatment that focuses on arterial wall defect reconstruction, differing from endovascular lesion embolization or flow diverter therapies. In recent years, covered stents specifically designed for cerebrovascular treatment have been applied in the clinical setting, allowing thousands of patients with CCVDs to undergo intraluminal reconstruction treatment and achieving positive results, even in the era of flow diverters. Since there is no unified reference standard for the application of covered stents for treating CCVDs, it is necessary to further standardize and guide the clinical application of this technique. Thus, we organized authoritative experts in the field of neurointervention in China to write an expert consensus, which aims to summarize the results of covered stent insertion in the treatment of CCVDs and propose suitable standards for its application in the clinical setting. Based on the contents of this consensus, clinicians can use individualized intraluminal reconstruction treatment techniques for patients with CCVDs.

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