Dural sinus compartment in dural arteriovenous shunts: a new angioarchitectural feature allowing superselective transvenous dural sinus occlusion treatment.
OBJECTIVE
The dural sinus occlusion has been shown to be effective in the treatment of some dural arteriovenous shunts (DAVS). No long-term results are available, however, regarding the significance of occlusion of a dural sinus. If the disease will stop or if other events will occur later in the remaining sinuses are not well known yet. Careful analyses of our cases led us to discover that, in some instances, the shunt involves only a single portion or compartment of a sinus. In this report, we describe our results in the treatment of these lesions: occluding only the involved compartment while preserving patency of the remainder of the sinus and the angiographic signals, thus allowing diagnosis of the presence of a compartment.


RESULTS
From 1996 to October 2002, we found 12 cases of DAVS (among 40 news cases of DAVS) with two types of compartments--one inside the sinus, which we call "septation" (nine cases), and the other outside the sinus, which we call "accessory sinus" (three cases). It was possible to occlude completely the lesion superselectively in nine cases. In two cases, it was necessary to occlude the entire sinus secondarily, and in one case the sinus was occluded because was impossible to catheterize the septation. Two cases with recanalization on the control were treated by additional arterial and arterial and venous approach.


CONCLUSIONS
It is very important to diagnose the presence of a compartment in dural arteriovenous shunts during the diagnostic angiography. In most cases, it allows curative treatment of the lesion by occluding only the compartment while preserving patency of the remainder of the sinus.
Piske
Ronie Leo
RL
Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Med Imagem, Hospital Beneficencia Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. roniepiske@uol.com.br
Campos
Christiane Monteiro Siqueira
CM
Chaves
Jacinto B L
JB
Abicalaf
Ricardo
R
Dabus
Guilherme
G
Batista
Laecio Leitao
LL
Baccin
Carlos
C
Lima
Sergio Santos
SS
D000328:Adult; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003392:Cranial Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000098:blood supply*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D016896:Treatment Outcome