Dissecting aneurysm of vertebral artery involving the origin of posteroinferior cerebellar artery treated with retrograde stent placement and coil embolization in the era of flow diverter

Ruptured vertebral artery (VA) dissecting aneurysm carries high risk of rerupture and mortality if not treated immediately. Dissecting aneurysm of the VA involving the posteroinferior cerebellar artery (PICA) origin is difficult to treat by surgical and endovascular route. With the availability of flow diversion device for reconstructive procedure, endovascular treatment has now become easy to treat difficult aneurysm while maintaining the patency of the PICA. However, instead of using flow diverter (FD) in our case, we successfully treated dissecting VA aneurysm involving the PICA origin with retrograde stent placement from distal right VA to the left PICA to maintain the patency of PICA and occlusion of dissecting aneurysm of VA with detachable coils instead of performing surgical bypass and FD placement.

Key-words:

Flow diverter - noncontrast computed tomography - parent vessel occlusion - posteroinferior cerebellar artery - stent - subarachnoid hemorrhage - vertebral artery

Publication History

Article published online:
14 September 2022