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A Study of Vertebrobasilar Artery Dissection with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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Surgical Management of Cerebrovascular Disease

Part of the book series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum ((NEUROCHIRURGICA,volume 107))

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We retrospectively studied clinical characteristics of 368 patients with cerebral artery dissections who were diagnosed in 172 Japanese hospitals. Of these patients, 130 (35%) presented with subarachnoid hemorrhage, 217 (59%) with cerebral infarctions, and 21 (6%) with transient ischemic attacks. We analyzed 109 (84%) subarachnoid hemorrhage cases caused by vertebrobasilar artery dissection to evaluate conservative and surgical treatment from the viewpoint of postoperative rerupture and infarction.

Subsequent ruptures were observed in 14% of the 21 cases with nonsurgical treatment. For the preventive purpose of rerupture, 88 patients received surgical interventions: 68 trappings, 13 proximal occlusions, 6 aneurysmal sac occlusions and 1 stenting. Rerupture was experienced in 33% of the aneurysmal sac occlusion patients while not occurring in the other three surgical interventions. In the group without vascular anastomosis, postoperative cerebral infarction was observed in 25% of the trapping, none of the proximal occlusion and 33% of the aneurysmal sac occlusion cases.

In this study, aneurysmal sac occlusion treatments were more frequently complicated by rerupture or cerebral infarction postoperatively than the other treatment methods. It was difficult to determine which surgical treatment can achieve better surgical outcome among the proximal occlusion and trapping with or without vascular anastomosis.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka National Hospital, 2-1-14, Hoenzaka, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan

    S. Nakajima

  2. Department of Neurosurgery and Clinical Research Center, Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan

    T. Tsukahara

  3. Cerebrovascular Division, Department of Medicine, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan

    K. Minematsu

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Nakajima, S., Tsukahara, T., Minematsu, K. (2010). A Study of Vertebrobasilar Artery Dissection with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Surgical Management of Cerebrovascular Disease. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 107. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99373-6_7

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