Endovascular Angioplasty-Stenting as a Definitive Treatment for Isolated Spontaneous Common Carotid Artery Dissection

Abstract

Turkish

Isolated spontaneous common carotid artery (CCA) dissection is rare. So far, surgical or medical treatment have only been reported in a few cases in the literature. We report a 39-year-old man, diagnosed as isolated spontaneous CCA dissection one year ago, who experienced a new minor stroke despite medical treatment. Because of the presence of new ischemic lesions on new magnetic resonance imaging despite medical treatment, and critical narrowing of internal carotid artery (ICA) orifice with jet and turbulence flow pattern at the bulbar portion of the ICA, endovascular management was performed with carotid stent deployment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of spontaneous isolated CCA dissection treated with stenting of the carotid artery reported in literature.

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common carotid artery dissection stenting

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