Images Diagnosis and Emergent Endovascular Treatment of Acute Hemorrhagic Basilar Artery Dissection: A Case Report.

PURPOSE: Basilar artery dissection (BAD) is a rare but possibly fatal disease with specific neuroimage findings. The management of BAD varies. This report describes a case with hemorrhagic BAD treated by endovascular stent-assisted coil embolization.

CASE REPORT: We report an 82-year-old case of acute mid basilar artery dissection complicated with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and hydrocephalus, which was diagnosed by complete neuroimage surveys including computed tomography angiography (CTA), magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), and digital subtraction angiography (DSA). She was then successfully treated by endovascular stent-assisted coil embolization.

CONCLUSION

By modern sophisticated neuroimages, BAD could be diagnosed. Endovascular treatment with stent-assisted coil embolization can be a safe and efficacious choice for relatively poor surgical indicated patients with hemorrhagic BAD.