Abstract Accidental fish bone ingestion is a common complaint at emergency departments. The majority of cases have benign course. However, serious complications such as esophagus perforation, cervical vessel injury and abscess can occur in 7.4% cases. Mortality rates be high 50% when mediastinitis occurs. We report case an esophageal perforation caused by with lesion to the right carotid artery...

introduction: prevalence of stroke following coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) is % 2.1-5.2 and associated with high mortality. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of carotid artery disease in patients undergoing cabg surgery.  methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in the years 2010-2011 on 192 patients who underwent open heart surgery (cabg) in ima...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the technical feasibility and clinical efficacy of emergent carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) for acute stroke due to athero-thrombotic occlusion of the cervical internal carotid artery (ICA). METHODS Review of medical records identified 17 patients who underwent emergent CAS for treatment of athero-thrombotic occlusion of the cervica...

Figure 1 Branches of the aortic arc. A 30 year old woman presented with a three week history of symmetrical jaw claudication and episodes of pain in the left arm with a blue discolouration and loss of strength. Two years previously she was given a tentative diagnosis of Takayasu's disease after multiple large arterial vascular problems and severe general malaise. No immunosuppressive treatment ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A nonbifurcating cervical carotid artery is a branching anomaly in which the ECA has no proximal main trunk. We report its incidence and characteristic features on MRA. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed MRAs of 2866 patients obtained by using a standard noncontrast MRA protocol and two 1.5T MR imaging units and reviewed the English language literature to...

In the setting of an acute stroke caused by arterial dissection, navigating a microcatheter and microguidewire past the dissected artery to gain access to the distal thromboembolic lesion may exacerbate the underlying pathology. We review a case report whereby successful recanalization of an acute carotid terminus occlusion due to intimal-media dissection in the cervical carotid artery emphasiz...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have established that radiation to the head and neck leads to atherosclerosis and stenosis of the carotid artery and subsequent increased stroke risk, but the ophthalmic sequella following cervical irradiation is less well-defined. CASE PRESENTATION We present a single case of branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO) in a 55 year-old Caucasian male seen at the Univer...

Clinical presentation of carotid artery dissection (CAD) is variable, including acute or subacute headache, cervical pain, or focal neurologic deficit that occurs spontaneously, after a high-speed neck manipulation, or trauma. Isolated lower cranial nerve palsy in carotid dissection is uncommon.