Endovascular treatment of a ruptured vertebral dissecting aneurysm associated with double-origin posterior inferior cerebellar artery

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2011 Jan 1;77(1):150-3. doi: 10.1002/ccd.22685.

Abstract

Untreated, ruptured vertebral dissecting aneurysms are associated with high incidences of rebleeding and consequent mortality. Double-origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is an infrequent congenital variation, which showing predilection for the formation of intracranial aneurysm. We describe an endovascular approach toward the treatment of a ruptured vertebral dissecting aneurysm associated with double-origin PICA.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / diagnostic imaging
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / etiology
  • Aneurysm, Ruptured / therapy*
  • Central Nervous System Vascular Malformations / complications*
  • Central Nervous System Vascular Malformations / diagnostic imaging
  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Embolization, Therapeutic*
  • Endovascular Procedures*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Posterior Cerebral Artery / abnormalities*
  • Posterior Cerebral Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vertebral Artery Dissection / diagnostic imaging
  • Vertebral Artery Dissection / etiology
  • Vertebral Artery Dissection / therapy*