A new therapeutic procedure for treatment of objective venous pulsatile tinnitus.
Pulsatile tinnitus usually means a turbulent flow within the vessels. We describe a 54-year-old man with a disabling objective pulsatile tinnitus due to a diverticulum of the sigmoid sinus toward the ipsilateral mastoid. We performed a surgical intervention via the endovascular route using coils to obliterate the diverticulum and a stent to avoid coil migration. The patient had a complete and immediate remission of the pulsatile tinnitus. This procedure has been described only in arterial circulation.
Sanchez
Tanit Ganz
TG
Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil. tanitgs@attglobal.net
Murao
Márcia
M
de Medeiros
Italo Roberto Torres
IR
Kii
Márcia
M
Bento
Ricardo Ferreira
RF
Caldas
José Guilherme
JG
Alvarez
Carlos Alberto
CA
Raggiotto
Carlos Henrique
CH
D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004240:Diverticulum / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011673:Pulsatile Flow; D015607:Stents; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed