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- Title
Corkscrew angiopathy of intracranial vessels in a young stroke patient: a case report.
- Authors
Alurkar, Anand; Sudha P. Karanam, Lakshmi; Oak, Sagar P.; Karanam, Lakshmi Sudha P
- Abstract
<bold>Unlabelled: </bold><bold>Introduction: </bold>We present a rare finding of a 'corkscrew appearance' of the distal cerebral vessels in a young Asian woman who presented with acute stroke.<bold>Case Presentation: </bold>A 32-year-old Asian woman presented with a 3-month history of recurrent right-sided transient ischemic attacks. Her clinical workup and brain imaging results were normal. A digital subtraction angiogram revealed an abnormal corkscrew appearance of all intracranial distal vessels. She was discharged on a single antiplatelet drug. She had no further transient ischemic attacks on clinical follow-up. A digital subtraction angiogram performed 1 year later revealed no changes in the appearance of these vessels.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>To the best of our knowledge no similar previous reports exist in the literature. The present report describes a unique case of an unusual corkscrew appearance of the distal intracranial vessels. However, the underlying etiology in the present case remains unknown.
- Subjects
CORKSCREWS; INTRACRANIAL aneurysms; STROKE patients; PLATELET aggregation inhibitors
- Publication
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1, p358
- ISSN
1752-1947
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/1752-1947-6-358