A 67-year-old woman suffered rebleeding from a ruptured vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm after endovascular internal trapping. The dissecting aneurysm was initially successfully occluded with the affected vertebral artery using detachable coils. However, rebleeding from the aneurysm occurred on the next day. The rebleeding may have resulted from the thrombolytic effect of urokinase, which w...

Spontaneous dissecting aneurysm of the aorta in man is most commonly a sequel of hypertension but sometimes occurs in association with degenerative liquefaction of the media of the aorta. New light has been thrown upon dissecting aneurysm by its production in growing rats by a diet high in sweet peas. The offending agent has been isolated and a number of simpler related compounds have been synt...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired coagulation disorder that occurs when the normal hemostatic balance is disturbed, primarily by excessive thrombin formation. Moreover, while DIC is a rare complication of aortic dissecting aneurysm, it is also a well-recognized one. We reported a case of DIC associated with aortic dissecting aneurysm in a 55-year-old woman who was tran...

Backgroud: We aimed to evaluate the clinical presentations and report the acceptable clinical and angiographic outcome of the distal posterior cerebral artery (PCA) dissecting aneurysms with parent artery occlusion (PAO). Methods: From June 2006 to July 2013, 26 patients with PCA dissecting aneurysms were planned to be treated via endovascular PAO in our institution. Fourteen patients had ruptu...

No treatment strategy has been established for subarachnoid hemorrhages due to basilar artery (BA) trunk dissecting aneurysms. Our aim was to report our initial experience performing stent-assisted coiling (SAC) for ruptured BA dissecting aneurysms to validate the effectiveness of this treatment. We experienced four consecutive cases of ruptured dissecting BA trunk aneurysm treated with SAC bet...

Aortic dissection is a longitudinal cleavage of the aortic media created by a dissecting column of blood. The term “dissecting aortic aneurysm” has been inaccurately applied to this entity since 1819, when Laënnec first used the term aneurysme dissequant. The term aortic dissection is preferred to dissecting aortic aneurysm because the affected aorta is only rarely aneurysmal. In 1955, DeBakey ...

Spontaneous dissecting aneurysm of the aorta in man is most commonly a sequel of hypertension but sometimes occurs in association with degenerative liquefaction of the media of the aorta. New light has been thrown upon dissecting aneurysm by its production in growing rats by a diet high in sweet peas. The offending agent has been isolated and a number of simpler related compounds have been synt...

A 56-year-old man presented with abrupt onset epigastric and back pain for 4 hours. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) revealed a dissection at the proximal part of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) without a limitation in distal flow or bowel ischemia (Fig. 1A). However, an 1-week follow-up CTA showed progression of the SMA dissection down to the distal jejunal branch (Fig. 1B). Thus, we...

Primary dissecting aneurysms of the hepatic artery are extremely rare and only 15 cases, including the present case, have been reported in the literature. Surgery was performed in 5 cases, of which 3 cases were successfully treated. This report presents a case of a dissecting aneurysm of the proper hepatic artery that was successfully treated by aneurysmorraphy and vein patch angioplasty.