Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes

Amongst various mechanisms of presyncopal events, posterior circulation disease needs to be considered. This particular mechanism has been underrecognized. We describe a case of a 76-year-old patient with recurrent posterior circulation TIAs, presenting as recurrent prolonged presyncopal events.

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Autores principales: Sundar, Banu, Moonis, Majaz, Wakhloo, Ajay, Puri, Ajit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/251536
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author Sundar, Banu
Moonis, Majaz
Wakhloo, Ajay
Puri, Ajit
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description Amongst various mechanisms of presyncopal events, posterior circulation disease needs to be considered. This particular mechanism has been underrecognized. We describe a case of a 76-year-old patient with recurrent posterior circulation TIAs, presenting as recurrent prolonged presyncopal events.
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spelling pubmed-45697802015-09-29 Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes Sundar, Banu Moonis, Majaz Wakhloo, Ajay Puri, Ajit Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Amongst various mechanisms of presyncopal events, posterior circulation disease needs to be considered. This particular mechanism has been underrecognized. We describe a case of a 76-year-old patient with recurrent posterior circulation TIAs, presenting as recurrent prolonged presyncopal events. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4569780/ /pubmed/26421200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/251536 Text en Copyright © 2015 Banu Sundar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wakhloo, Ajay
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Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title_full Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title_fullStr Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title_short Bilateral Intracranial Vertebral Artery Stenosis Presenting as Recurrent Prolonged Presyncopal Episodes
title_sort bilateral intracranial vertebral artery stenosis presenting as recurrent prolonged presyncopal episodes
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/251536
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