• Christopher J Stapleton, Yi-Fan Chen, Hussain Shallwani, Kunal Vakharia, Tanya N Turan, Henry H Woo, Colin P Derdeyn, Fady T Charbel, Adnan H Siddiqui, and Sepideh Amin-Hanjani.
• Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
• Neurosurgery. 2020 Jun 1; 86 (6): 755762755-762.

BackgroundSymptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) is an important cause of stroke. Although the high periprocedural risk of intracranial stenting from recent randomized studies has dampened enthusiasm for such interventions, submaximal angioplasty without stenting may represent a safer endovascular treatment option.ObjectiveTo examine the periprocedural and long-term risks associated with submaximal angioplasty for ICAD based on the available literature.MethodsAll English language studies of intracranial angioplasty for ICAD were screened. Inclusion criteria were as follows: ≥ 5 patients, intervention with submaximal angioplasty alone, and identifiable periprocedural (30-d) outcomes. Analysis was co-nducted to identify the following: 1) periprocedural risk of any stroke (ischemic or hemorrh-agic) or death, and 2) stroke in the territory of the target vessel and fatal stroke beyond 30 d. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to summarize event rates. Funnel plot and rank correlation tests were employed to detect publication bias. The relative risk of periprocedural events from anterior vs posterior circulation disease intervention was also examined.ResultsA total of 9 studies with 408 interventions in 395 patients met inclusion criteria. Six of these studies included 113 posterior circulation interventions. The estimated pooled rate for 30-d stroke or death following submaximal angioplasty was 4.9% (95% CI: 3.2%-7.5%), whereas the estimated pooled rate beyond 30 d was 3.7% (95% CI: 2.2%-6.0%). There was no statistical difference in estimated pooled rate for 30-d stroke or death between patients with anterior (4.8%, 95% CI: 2.8%-7.9%) vs posterior (5.3%, 95% CI: 2.4%-11.3%) circulation disease (P  .99).ConclusionSubmaximal angioplasty represents a potentially promising intervention for symptomatic ICAD.Copyright © 2019 by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

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