[Landmark of the internal carotid artery stenting, anterior interventricular branch of the left coronary artery and vertebral artery in a patient with multifocal atherosclerosis]

Angiol Sosud Khir. 2010;16(1):133-6.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Presented herein is a clinical case report concerning a 59-year-old male patient suffering from multifocal atherosclerosis after endured repeat acute ischaemic attacks in various arterial basins of the brain. Analysing his case history revealed functional class II-IV angina of effort. Ultrasonographic and angiographic findings showed a haemodynamically significant plaque in the ostium of the left internal carotid artery, hypoplasia of the right vertebral artery, a haemodynamically meaningful narrowing of the left vertebral artery, subtotal stenosis of the anterior interventricular branch and pronounced alterations in the right vertebral artery. The first stage of surgery consisted in stenting of the left internal carotid artery and anterior interventricular branch, followed by the second stage consisting in the stenting of the left vertebral artery with an angiographically good outcome. The check-up CT of the brain and 24-hour ECG monitoring showed no negative dynamics. In July 2005, the patient was subjected to craniocerebral microarterial shunting on the right. No relapses of AIAs have so far been observed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Angioplasty, Balloon*
  • Atherosclerosis / diagnosis
  • Atherosclerosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Atherosclerosis / therapy*
  • Brain Ischemia / prevention & control*
  • Carotid Artery, Internal* / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Stenosis / diagnosis
  • Carotid Stenosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Carotid Stenosis / therapy*
  • Coronary Vessels*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Electrocardiography, Ambulatory
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory
  • Stents*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vertebral Artery* / diagnostic imaging