Comments regarding ‘Comparison of Stent Free Cell Area and Cerebral Lesions after Unprotected Carotid Artery Stent Placement’

Abstract

have less to do with the actual cell size and surface area coverage. Open-cell stents might have smaller cell sizes compared with closed-cell stents. A Opposite to the use of sophisticated imaging techniques such as DW-MRI to extensively evaluate silent (and thus small) brain lesions post-CAS, a thorough pre-procedural evaluation of the vulnerability and anatomy of the carotid plaques and arteries is still underexposed. Imaging of plaque vulnerability and plaque morphology (for instance with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or virtual histology), degree of arterial wall calcification and angulation of the carotid arterial wall are most important for the