Elective Carotid Artery Stenting with Distal Protection Filter Device (Emboshield Filter)

- Operator : Seong-Wook Park

Elective Carotid Artery Stenting with Distal Protection Filter Device (Emboshield Filter)
- Operator: Seong-Wook Park, MD, Young-Hak Kim, MD

74 year-old male patient was admitted with dizziness for 2 months. He had had two episodes of syncopes several years ago. And he had received coronary stenting at the middle right coronary artery lesion in 1997, middle left anterior descending artery, and the proximal left circumflex artery in April 19, 2004. His coronary risk factor was hypertension. Duplex Doppler study showed a tight stenosis of the right proximal internal carotid artery (ICA) with calcified plaque. Magnetic resonance image and angiography showed old cortical infarction involving both the parietal lobes and the right cerebellar hemisphere with focal severe stenosis of the right proximal ICA. Pre-intervention carotid angiography revealed a tight stenosis of the right proximal ICA and a mild stenosis of the left ICA (Figure 1).

Selective cannulation of the right common carotid artery was performed using a 5F Headhunter catheter. After cannulation, a 0.035 inch stiff wire was inserted into the external carotid artery. A 7Fr, 90 cm long, shuttle sheath was positioned in the right common carotid artery over the stiff wire. Then, 0.014 inch Emboshield filer wire was advanced beyond the critical stenosis. And the emboshield filter was positioned in the distal ICA (Figure 2). The lesion was predilated with an ultrathin 4.0 x 20 mm balloon at 6atm. Following angiogram showed a significant residual stenosis at the right proximal ICA (Figure 3). A self-expanding, 6mm x 48mm, carotid wallstent was positioned and expanded from the right common carotid artery to the proximal ICA. Following angiogram revealed moderate stenosis of intrastent portion. Therefore, adjunctive balloon dilation was performed with a Powerflex 6.0mm x 20mm balloon at 10 atm. The final result is shown in Figure 4. A small amount of atheroembolic debris was captured in emboshield filter device. The patient had no neurological deficit and was discharged two days later without event.

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