Spontaneous Bilateral Cervical Internal Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection in a Japanese Patient without Collagen Vascular Disease with Special Reference to Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Spontaneous cervical artery dissection (sCAD) is a major cause of ischemic stroke in young adults. Frequently, sCAD involves multiple neck arteries, accounting for 13%-28% of the total sCAD cases. However, little is known about factors related to multiple sCAD. In this case, a 52-year-old man was admitted due to headache without aura. There was a personal history of migraine with aura and a family history of similar symptoms. The patient's younger brother had a left vertebral artery (VA) dissecting aneurysm and underwent endovascular occlusion of his parent artery at the age of 48.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - May 19, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Arata Abe, Chikako Nito, Yuki Sakamoto, Akane Nogami, Hiroyuki Hokama, Shiro Takahashi, Kumiko Kirita, Masayuki Ueda, Yoshiro Ishimaru, Kazumi Kimura Tags: Case Studies Source Type: research