Secondary prevention in intracranial stenosis related stroke: a narrow path among evidence
By Giuseppe Reale, MD. Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome. Arterial stenosis due to large artery atherosclerosis (intracranial atherosclerotic arterial stenosis, ICAAS) causes 5–10% of strokes in white, 15–29% of TIA/strokes in black and up to 30–50% of strokes in Asian people1. The proposed underlying mechanisms for ICAAS causing stroke are basically three: 1) […]