Traumatic bilateral carotid and vertebral artery dissection

Traumatic bilateral carotid artery dissection.

INTRODUCTION Bilateral carotid artery dissection following blunt trauma is a rare but potentially lethal injury if not diagnosed early and treated. CASE REPORT We report a collision patient who suffered bilateral asymptomatic carotid artery dissections. He also had multiple fractures of the pelvis and upper and lower extremities. The patient was managed acutely with aspirin. He underwent open...

Traumatic intracerebral infarction due to vertebral and carotid artery dissection.

To cite: Ellanti P, Hurson C. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-207286 DESCRIPTION A 38-year-old woman presented to the emergency department subsequent to a high-velocity single vehicle road traffic accident with a fracture of left ulna and radius, right clavicle and sacrum. There was no history of loss of consciousness. Her Glasgow Coma Scale ...

Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection

Bilateral thalamic infarction after traumatic vertebral artery dissection.

A 29-year-old female patient visited the emergency room for whirling dizziness and hypersomnolence. She had had a cervical chiropractic manipulation two weeks before admission. She had no previous history of stroke or vasculitis. Initial diffusionweighted images showed diffusion restriction in the bilateral thalami, occipital lobes, and brain stem. Subsequent magnetic resonance angiography (MRA...

Post-traumatic vertebral artery dissection.

Correspondence: HG, e-mail: . Received 30 October 2009 and revised version accepted 15 July 2010. Competing interests: none declared. CT angiogram showed eccentric contrast in the left vertebral artery from just after its origin to the level of the C4 vertebral body suggestive of dissection (Figure 2). He was anticoagulated with enoxeparin. He walked independently when he l...