Endovascular treatment of a vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm in a drug user

Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2006 Jul-Aug;29(4):662-4. doi: 10.1007/s00270-005-0105-1.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aneurysm, False / diagnostic imaging*
  • Aneurysm, False / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Stents*
  • Substance Abuse, Intravenous / complications
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ultrasonography
  • Vertebral Artery*