Posterior Circulation Infarctions Secondary to a Post Traumatic Vertebral Artery Dissection

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Identifier EEC-Case-Posterior circulation infarctions-Dissection
Title Posterior Circulation Infarctions Secondary to a Post Traumatic Vertebral Artery Dissection
Creator Devin D. Mackay, MD; Valérie Biousse, MD
Affiliation (DDM) Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, Georgia; (VB) Cyrus H. Stoner Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Subject Stroke; Posterior Circulation; Vertebral Dissection; Homonymous Hemianopia
Description A case of a young man with a vertebral artery dissection that caused multiple posterior circulation brain infarcts. Images from an MRI of the brain, digital subtraction angiography, and Humphrey visual fields are included. Figure 1 : Humphrey visual fields showed a right homonymous hemianopia with relative central sparing. Figure 2 : MRI brain DWI and ADC images showing acute infarcts at the bilateral temporo-occipital junctions, left more than right. Figure 3 : MRI brain DWI and ADC images showing acute infarcts in the anterior medial left occipital lobe and bilateral posterior thalami. Figure 4 : Digital subtraction angiogram, anteroposterior view, showing the left vertebral artery and posterior cerebral circulation. Occlusion of a P2 branch of the left posterior cerebral artery led to an ischemic stroke responsible for a portion of the patient's symptoms.
Date 2014
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Format Creation Microsoft PowerPoint
Type Text
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library - The Emory Eye Center Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/eec/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2002. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_eec
ID 177397
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s61z71xn
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