Endovascular management of a ruptured aneurysm associated with distal PICA fenestration. Issue 4 (August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nadarajah, Jeyaseelan; Jain, Nishchint; Sebastian, Leve Joseph Devarajan; Gaikwad, SB; Garg, Ajay; Prabhakar, Anuj
• Is Part Of: Interventional neuroradiology. Volume 25:Issue 4(2019:Aug.)
• Page Start: 430
• Page End: 433
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Subjects: Coiling -- fenestration -- posterior inferior cerebellar artery -- ruptured aneurysm; Nervous system -- Interventional radiology -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Radiography -- Periodicals; Nervous System Diseases -- Periodicals -- radiography; Neuroradiography -- Periodicals; Radiography, Interventional -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Radiography; Periodicals; 617.4805
• DOI: 10.1177/1591019919838194
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1591-0199

Abstract

Fenestrations are rare but well-known arterial anatomic variations in which a segment of artery divides into two parallel channels that reunite distally. Although fenestrations as such are asymptomatic, they have gained clinical significance because of their association with aneurysms and other intracranial vascular pathologies. Here we present a 35-year-old woman with history of sudden severe occipital headache and vomiting. Imaging revealed a ruptured aneurysm in the distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery arising from one of the limbs of the fenestration. The aneurysm was successfully managed by coiling, and the patient made complete recovery without neurological sequelae.