Bilateral Vertebral Artery Dissection - Multiple Artery Affection or Early Recurrence?

Abstract

In a certain percentage of patients with craniocervical artery dissection, dissections affect multiple arteries. Some investigators consider that the dissections diagnosed as multiple might have occurred sequentially within a short time frame. We describe an oligosymptomatic patient with bilateral progressive vertebral artery dissection. Careful history taking added new data on transient left arm weakens two months earlier, as a possibility of the earlier disease onset.

Keywords

• Vertebral artery dissection, bilateral
• Stroke
• Neurosonology
• Monitoring