One-third of patients who develop internal carotid occlusion will die or have disabling cerebral symptoms. ~ The results of urgent carotid thromboendarterectomy in patients with established internal carotid occlusion were disappointing. Extracranial to intracranial bypass in symptomatic patients with internal carotid artery occlusion produced high numbers of strokes and was not of benefit. 2 At...

background: common carotid arterial stiffness can be assessed during carotid arterial ultrasonography, but its association with brachial stiffness, a well-defined cardiovascular risk factor, has not been clarified. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between common carotid artery and brachial artery stiffness. methods: the static pressure-strain elastic modulus of the common c...

We describe a unique case of Kimura's disease in which cerebral infarction was caused by occlusion of the right internal carotid artery. A 25-year-old man with Kimura's disease was admitted to our hospital because of left hemiparesis. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the head showed infarction in the right frontal and temporal lobes. Cerebral angiography demonstrated right ...

PURPOSE To describe the technique and results of percutaneous puncture of the external carotid artery or one of its branches distal to a surgical arterial ligation. METHODS Forty-three patients underwent 64 embolization attempts by percutaneous arterial puncture distal to an external carotid artery ligation. The punctured arteries were the trunk of the external carotid artery in 31 patients, ...

Dissection of the internal carotid artery is a rare cause of stroke overall, but causes 22% of strokes in younger patients. A common clinical presentation is as Claude Bernard Horner syndrome. We report a craniotomy with 30 degrees rotation of the neck (standard position) in a patient with no major risk factors for carotid dissection, who showed a Pourfour du Petit syndrome due to a dissection ...

Internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysms are uncommon. We report a young man with history of trivial trauma who presented with middle cerebral artery stroke. Head CT scan revealed a right parapharyngeal mass. MRI confirmed the diagnosis of internal carotid pseudoaneurysm. Cerebral angiogram showed dissection of internal carotid artery with a large pseudoaneurysm and almost complete occlusion of ...

Dissection of the internal carotid artery is often caused by trauma to the face or neck. It usually has a delayed onset neurological presentation, a partial middle cerebral artery territory syndrome, 'normal' early CT scan, MRI evidence of middle cerebral artery occlusion, progressive partial or complete neurological recovery, and duplex scan evidence of a reestablished lumen in the internal ca...

Twenty-three instances of internal carotid artery occlusion occurring with minimal neurological deficit in 22 patients are described. Although each of these patients was referred to the neurosurgical service for evaluation for an extracranial-intracranial microvascular bypass procedure, complete arteriographic evaluations of their cerebrovasculature suggested that alternative methods should be ...

The other reports a case of fibrodysplasic aneurysm of the extracranial internal carotid artery that was successfully treated by resection and direct end-to-end anastomosis of the internal carotid artery.