New System of Cerebral Protection for Carotid Stenting

The use of cerebral protection during carotid stenting is being less and less contested. The protection systems currently available present a certain number of inconveniences. The new system that the authors propose is an evolution of the cerebral protection concept by temporary occlusion of the distal internal carotid.1-3 Experience with several hundred endovascular treatments of the carotid bifurcation process concluded several strong points that have been used to simplify the technique: