Symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease: an ultrasound 2-year follow-up pilot study.
Pietro CaliandroGiuseppe RealeAndrew M DemchukValeria CasoAnita ArsovskaChiara IacovelliSilvia GiovanniniPaolo Maria RossiniPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2018)
The high rate of recurrent stroke or death among ICAD patients seems to be independent of progressive arterial narrowing. A wide multicenter follow-up study is needed in order to identify the factors that, alongside the hemodynamic features, contribute to the high risk of recurrent stroke among patient with symptomatic ICAD.