Endovascular treatment of a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm in a drug user.
A 26-year-old drug abuser who presented with sepsis was found to have a pseudoaneurysm in the left vertebral artery. This aneurysm was presumed to be post-traumatic, since the patient reported multiple attempts to inject drugs in the left jugular vein 15 days prior to admission. The pseudoaneurysm was treated effectively with stent-graft placement.
Mourikis
Dimitrios
D
Department of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, University of Athens, Vas Sofias 76, Athens, Greece.
Chatziioannou
Achilleas
A
Doriforou
Ortansia
O
Skiadas
Vasilios
V
Koutoulidis
Vasilios
V
Katsenis
Konstantinos
K
Vlahos
Lampros
L
D000328:Adult; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014711:Vertebral Artery