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Author No. Patients No. Treated Stenoses Rate of Complication (%) Follow-Up Morbidity/Mortality Related to the Treated Stenosis in the Follow-Up Period (%) Technical Clinical Period (months) No. Stenoses Rate of Significant Restenosis (%) Rate of Stent Occlusion (%) Bare metal stents Chastain et al5 50 55 2 0 6 49 10 0 4/0 Albuquerque et al7 33 33 3 0 16 30 43 0 0/0 Lin et al22 58 67 0 7 11 32 25 1 3/0 Weber et al10 38 38 5 2 11 26 36 0 2/0 SSYLVIA Study11 6 6 – –* 6 6 67 0 –* Cloud et al23 14 14 0 0 20 11 9 0 0/0 Lin et al24 80 90 0 0 12 40 21 (short stenoses)29 (medium length) 50 (long stenoses) 0 0/0 Akins et al12 7 7 0 0 36 7 43 1 0/0 Taylor et al25 44 48 0 0 7 48 48 0 0/0 Drug-eluting stents Lin et al13 11 11 0 0 4 and 8 2 0 0 0/0 Lugmayr et al14 7 8 0 0 6 8 63 0 28/0 Gupta et al15 27 27 0 2 4 27 7 0 0/0 Akins et al12 5 5 0 0 17 5 0 0 0/0 Edgell et al16 5 5 0 0 15 5 0 0 1/0 Our data 48 52 0 0 7 52 12 0 0/0
Note:—SSYLVIA indicates Stenting of Symptomatic Atherosclerotic Lesions in the Vertebral or Intracranial Arteries.
* The exact location of the treated stenoses responsible for the clinical complications is not given specifically in the article.