Surgical treatment of kinked internal carotid arteries.
Carotid artery insufficiency is caused by an abnormal kinked or coiled internal carotid artery in 15-20 per cent of symptomatic patients. Surgical correction should be considered if other causes for the neurological signs are excluded, a pronounced kinked or coiled area is demonstrated and if there is not a severe neurological deficit. As well as eliminating the elongation, surgical correction should include intraluminal inspection of the artery as, in 38-5 per cent of cases, a concomitant arteriosclerotic stenosis requires simultaneous correction.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009461:Neurologic Manifestations