BACKGROUND Non-traumatic, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage occurs in approximately 85% of cases where there is a ruptured saccular aneurysm. An additional 10% of cases arise from non-aneurysmal peri-mesencephalic hemorrhages. CASE PRESENTATION We report a rare case of a young female, with underlying Evans syndrome, who was initially thought to have non-hemorrhagic stroke, eventually diagno...

1. A retrospective, observational, multicenter study evaluated aortic remodeling and associated complications in 47 patients treated with thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) for blunt traumatic injuries (BTAI). Which of the following is correct?1A.Aortic remodelling more common young patientsB.Aortic occurs mainly during first year after TEVAR its occurrence thereafter rare.C.Aortic c...

OBJECTIVE To review diseases of the aorta that commonly require management in the critical care unit. DATA SOURCES Articles and published reviews on aortic dissection, traumatic aortic rupture and aortic aneurysm. SUMMARY OF REVIEW The aorta is the largest arterial vessel of the body and disorders that can lead to rupture (e.g. aortic dissection, traumatic aortic rupture and aortic aneurysm...

When seen after head trauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) often leads to an angiogram to look for vascular injury. Usually the study is negative; sometimes a traumatic aneurysm or dissection is seen. Occasionally, a conventional saccular aneurysm is found. The clinical history, physical examination, and computed tomography (CT) scan in such a patient may suggest that an aneurysmal SAH was the ...

Traumatic aneurysms comprise less than 1% of all intracranial aneurysms. Most of these aneurysms are actually false aneurysms, or pseudoaneurysms, which are caused by the rupture of entire vessel wall layers, with the wall of the aneurysm being formed by the surrounding cerebral structures. Traumatic pseudoaneurysms of the middle meningeal artery are also rare. Only four cases have been reporte...

Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are uncommon and one of the most difficult lesions to treat. Traditional treatment methods have focused on parent vessel sacrifice with or without revascularization. We report the case of a patient who underwent successful treatment of an iatrogenic extracranial vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm using the Pipeline Embolization Device. A 47-year-old man sustained an inadv...

Blunt traumatic injury and acute dissection of thoracic aorta is increasing in incidence in seriously multi-trauma patients, remaining highly lethal. Early identification and repair is the key to a successful outcome. We report an unusual case of a 62-year-old man involved in a motor vehicle accident after subarachnoid hemorrhage due to an intracranial artery aneurysm rupture. The post-traumati...