De novo distal posterior cerebral artery aneurysm.
BACKGROUND
De novo aneurysms in the posterior circulation are very rare. The authors describe a first case of ruptured de novo posterior cerebral artery (PCA) aneurysm in the P3 portion.


METHODS
A 52-year-old woman with ruptured de novo P3 aneurysm was treated by early endovascular obliteration using Guglielmi Detachable Coils (GDC). To prevent vasospasm, she received postoperative treatment with a hypertensive hypervolemia dilution and a calcium antagonist. She was discharged without neurologic deficits.


CONCLUSIONS
Aneuryms arising from peripheral segment of PCA are rare, and delayed surgical clipping has been recommended for these lesions. This is the first report of a de novo P3 ruptured aneurysm treated by endovascular embolization using GDC in the acute stage of subarachnoid hemorrhage. The characteristics of de novo posterior circulation aneurysms and the strategy for the distal PCA aneurysms are discussed.
Yoshioka
Hiroyuki
H
Department of Neurosurgery, National Kure Medical Center, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hotta
Takuhiro
T
Taniguchi
Eiji
E
Hashimoto
Naomi
N
Kinoshita
Yasuyuki
Y
Ohba
Shinji
S
Arita
Kazunori
K
Kurisu
Kaoru
K
D000328:Adult; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*