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The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)

BACKGROUND: A strong association was suggested between a non-functioning posterior communicating artery (Pcom) of the circle of Willis and sudden deafness (SD). The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of depiction of Pcom on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in patients with SD. METHO...

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Autores principales: Tsushima, Yoshito, Taketomi-Takahashi, Ayako, Endo, Keigo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1435771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16551347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-5
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author Tsushima, Yoshito
Taketomi-Takahashi, Ayako
Endo, Keigo
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Taketomi-Takahashi, Ayako
Endo, Keigo
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description BACKGROUND: A strong association was suggested between a non-functioning posterior communicating artery (Pcom) of the circle of Willis and sudden deafness (SD). The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of depiction of Pcom on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in patients with SD. METHODS: Sixteen patients with SD (47.7 +/- 13.3 years; range, 24 – 76 years; nine males) were evaluated with intracranial MRA as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head. The depiction of Pcom on MRA was correlated with the laterality of SD. One hundred twenty-eight controls (49.1 +/- 8.4 years; range, 22 – 66 years; 87 male) were selected from neurologically normal subjects who underwent MR examinations as a part of an annual medical check-up in our hospital. RESULTS: Four (25%) of 16 SD patients had bilateral Pcom on MRA, four patients had unilateral Pcom and eight patients had bilaterally absent Pcom These results were not significantly different from the controls (p = 0.96). In 6 (37.5 %) of 16 SD patients, the ipsilateral Pcom was present on MRA, and 104 (40.6%) of 256 Pcom were present in 128 normal controls (p = 0.81). CONCLUSION: Since there was no link between the occurrence of SD and the absence of the ipsilateral Pcom, our results cannot support the hypothesis that the absence of Pcom may be a risk factor for the occurrence of SD.
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spelling pubmed-14357712006-04-13 The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA) Tsushima, Yoshito Taketomi-Takahashi, Ayako Endo, Keigo BMC Ear Nose Throat Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: A strong association was suggested between a non-functioning posterior communicating artery (Pcom) of the circle of Willis and sudden deafness (SD). The purpose of this study was to determine the rate of depiction of Pcom on magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in patients with SD. METHODS: Sixteen patients with SD (47.7 +/- 13.3 years; range, 24 – 76 years; nine males) were evaluated with intracranial MRA as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head. The depiction of Pcom on MRA was correlated with the laterality of SD. One hundred twenty-eight controls (49.1 +/- 8.4 years; range, 22 – 66 years; 87 male) were selected from neurologically normal subjects who underwent MR examinations as a part of an annual medical check-up in our hospital. RESULTS: Four (25%) of 16 SD patients had bilateral Pcom on MRA, four patients had unilateral Pcom and eight patients had bilaterally absent Pcom These results were not significantly different from the controls (p = 0.96). In 6 (37.5 %) of 16 SD patients, the ipsilateral Pcom was present on MRA, and 104 (40.6%) of 256 Pcom were present in 128 normal controls (p = 0.81). CONCLUSION: Since there was no link between the occurrence of SD and the absence of the ipsilateral Pcom, our results cannot support the hypothesis that the absence of Pcom may be a risk factor for the occurrence of SD. BioMed Central 2006-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC1435771/ /pubmed/16551347 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-5 Text en Copyright © 2006 Tsushima et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tsushima, Yoshito
Taketomi-Takahashi, Ayako
Endo, Keigo
The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title_full The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title_fullStr The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title_full_unstemmed The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title_short The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (MRA)
title_sort posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden deafness: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging (mra)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1435771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16551347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-5
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