Embolic stroke after carotid artery ligation during carotid body tumor resection
- Authors
- Kim, Hyangkyoung; Cho, Yong-Pil; Moon, Ki-Myung; Kwon, Tae-Won
- Issue Date
- Feb-2013
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Keywords
- carotid artery; internal; ligation; thromboembolism
- Citation
- VASCULAR, v.21, no.1, pp 23 - 26
- Pages
- 4
- Journal Title
- VASCULAR
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 23
- End Page
- 26
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/14920
- DOI
- 10.1258/vasc.2011.cr0274
- ISSN
- 1708-5381
1708-539X
- Abstract
- This report describes a case of a delayed cerebral embolic infarction, after internal carotid artery (ICA) ligation secondary to carotid body tumor resection. We describe a 34-year-old woman who underwent left ICA ligation during a large carotid body tumor surgery. Immediately after surgery, the patient was neurologically asymptomatic; however, she subsequently developed a cerebral embolic infarction nine hours postoperatively. After beginning antiplatelet therapy, all symptoms ultimately resolved, although over a gradual course. Since the ligation of the ICA can cause thromboembolic infarctions of the cerebrum, we contend that antiplatelet agents be administered to prevent and/or treat embolic strokes.
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