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data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Widening \/ dilatation<\/h1><p>A vascular stenosis can occur in many vessels of the body and lead to different symptoms.<\/p><p><a title=\"Stenosis pelvis-leg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/stenosis-pelvis-leg\/\">Stenosis of pelvic artery or leg artery<\/a>\u00a0can cause the peripheral vascular disease. Symptoms very from, e. g., pain while walking or, in worser cases, at rest to a permanent blood circulatory disorder affecting one extremity.<\/p><p><a title=\"Carotid stenosis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/carotid-stenosis\/\">Carotid stenosis<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Intracranial stenosis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/intracranial-stenosis\/\">intracranial stenosis<\/a>\u00a0(especially of brain vessels) are the most frequent cause of an apoplectic stroke, most often triggered by embolism. In case of embolism, a clot of blood develops at the location of the stenosis, which can flood to a cerebral artery, causing an acute blood circulatory disorder.<\/p><p>The treatment of the aforementioned vascular stenosis is mainly an\u00a0<a title=\"Endovascular therapy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/endovascular-therapy\/\">endovascular therapy<\/a>, the so-called widening or dilatation. During dilatation, a balloon catheter is guided to the affected artery. The access for the catheter is mainly the femoral artery in the groin.<\/p><p>The stenosis is widened by a balloon. This dilatation is often sufficient for the treatment of the vascular stenosis. In the last years, drug eluting balloons are increasingly used. This technique improves the chances of a permanent opening of the vessel. Even completely closed vessels can be re-opened again permanently.<\/p><p>Dilatations on leg arteries or carotid arteries are carried out using\u00a0<a title=\"Anesthesia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/anesthesia\/\">local anesthetics<\/a>, but\u00a0general anesthesia\u00a0is useful on cerebral arteries.<\/p><p>If the dilatation is not sufficient, a\u00a0<a title=\"Stenting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/stenting\/\">stent<\/a>\u00a0is placed in addition. Special\u00a0stents\u00a0for leg or cerebral arteries are available today.<\/p><p>After every vascular dilatation, follow-up examinations are necessary, mostly by using\u00a0<a title=\"Ultrasound \/ sonography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/radiology-pediatric-radiology\/ultrasound-sonography\/\">ultrasound<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"MRI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/specialties\/neuroradiology-and-pediatric-neuroradiology\/mri\/\">MRI<\/a>\u00a0(MR angiography).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, vascular constriction is usually treated with endovascular therapy involving dilation, as is the case at the Beta Klinik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6099,"parent":7359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"fachrichtung":[155],"class_list":["post-11106","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fachrichtung-neuroradiology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11106\/revisions\/14440"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fachrichtung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betaklinik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fachrichtung?post=11106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}