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(b)(4).Patient information: (b)(6) female with a history of coronary artery disease with five stents, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, thrombocytopenia, gi bleed, chronic obstructive airways disease, acute kidney injury, hypothyroidism, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus and bilateral carotid stenosis each side >80%, headaches and r leg paresthesia, (questionable tia).Procedural history: a left sided tcar procedure was performed on (b)(6) 2017 at (b)(6) hospital, (b)(6).The procedure was technically straightforward, however, the patient was slow to awaken post-procedure, and was discovered to have a right sided hemiplegia.The decision was made to re-open the neck incision above the left clavicle.10,000 units of heparin were administered, intravenously, integrilin (a glycoprotein iib/iiia inhibitor and tpa (tissue plasminogen activator) ordered.The stent in the left internal carotid/common carotid artery was found to be thrombosed.A series of 2-3-4-5 fogarty catheters were used to perform thrombectomy, combined with a back-bleeding method to thrombectomize the stent.Tpa was administered.After angiographically determining the thrombus was removed, a drain was placed and the patient was awoken.Clinically, there was no improvement and ct of the head and neck was performed.The stent was noted to be patent.Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dwmri) of brain performed the next day showed "patchy areas of restricted diffusion in the left middle cerebral artery distribution suggesting interval infarct." the following day, ct of brain was performed and demonstrated "low density in the left caudate head and left basal ganglia which appears new since the previous exam.This is non-specific , and considerations include edema, evolving left middle cerebral artery infarcts, or artifact due to the obliquity of the head in the scanner.No hemorrhage, mass effect or midline shift".The patient received a tracheotomy on the same day.Since the procedure, there has been no improvement to r-arm and leg function.It was considered that the hyperacute stent occlusion was likely due to questionable compliance with the mandatory dual antiplatelet regime (aspirin and clopidogrel) or potentially insensitivity to clopidogrel.Of note, the patient's cardiologist from an outside hospital asked the patient to withhold prasugrel five days prior to tcar it was unclear whether the patient had received appropriate loading doses of aspirin and clopidogrel prior to tcar.There were no mechanical issues with the stent, which had deployed accurately with good wall apposition and without propagating a kink into the distal left internal carotid artery.End.
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