Endovascular recanalization of occluded dural sinus in a patient with dural arteriovenous fistulas: case report and literature review.

Endovascular recanalization of occluded dural sinus in a patient with dural arteriovenous fistulas: case report and literature review.

World Neurosurg. 2018 Mar 27;:

Authors: Zhang K, Gao BL, Zhu LF, Xue JY, Yang BW, Li TX

Abstract
Symptomatic sinus occlusion complicated with dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) can be treated endovascularly with occlusion of the fistula. No studies have reported the use of endovascular transvenous approaches alone to recanalize the occluded sinuses for the treatment of the involved dAVFs without stent deployment. In this study, we presented a 75-year-old man with occlusion of the transverse and sigmoid sinuses complicated with a dAVF. Balloon angioplasty was used to recanalize the occluded sinuses resulting in good effects. The symptoms disappeared after endovascular recanalization of the occluded left transverse sinus and sigmoid sinuses, and follow-up magnetic resonance imaging venography revealed opened sinuses with complete disappearance of the dAVF.

PMID: 29602009 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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