Acute morphological changes of impending rupture of vertebral artery dissection: clinical management of symptomatic but unruptured vertebral artery dissection. Illustrative case
Tatsuya Mori,
Atsushi Fujita,
Masaki Iwakura
et al.
Abstract:BACKGROUND
The reported actual risk of rupture for vertebral artery dissection (VAD) in patients presenting with headache is very low, ranging from 0.4% to 1.0%. The authors report a case in which the dissection site dilated rapidly within several hours after the dissection occurred resulting in subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
OBSERVATIONS
A 49-year-old healthy man who had participated in a marathon noticed a headache while running. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed 2 days later revealed no findings … Show more
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