Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report

BACKGROUND: Symptomatic hydrocephalus due to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is a rare occurrence. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient who presented with acute confusion and vomiting. Neuroimaging revealed elongated and tortuous basilar artery indenting and elevating the floor of third ventricle ca...

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Autores principales: Mohammed, Kazim, Iqbal, Javeed, Kamel, Hussein, Mathew, John, Al-Sulaiti, Ghanem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Neurovascular: Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29629227
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_37_17
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author Mohammed, Kazim
Iqbal, Javeed
Kamel, Hussein
Mathew, John
Al-Sulaiti, Ghanem
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Kamel, Hussein
Mathew, John
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description BACKGROUND: Symptomatic hydrocephalus due to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is a rare occurrence. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient who presented with acute confusion and vomiting. Neuroimaging revealed elongated and tortuous basilar artery indenting and elevating the floor of third ventricle causing obstructive hydrocephalus. Initially, the patient was treated with external ventricular drain and then with ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. CONCLUSION: We suggest prompt surgical intervention upon diagnosis as a first choice of treatment in order to avoid further complications.
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spelling pubmed-58751102018-04-06 Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report Mohammed, Kazim Iqbal, Javeed Kamel, Hussein Mathew, John Al-Sulaiti, Ghanem Surg Neurol Int Neurovascular: Case Report BACKGROUND: Symptomatic hydrocephalus due to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia is a rare occurrence. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a patient who presented with acute confusion and vomiting. Neuroimaging revealed elongated and tortuous basilar artery indenting and elevating the floor of third ventricle causing obstructive hydrocephalus. Initially, the patient was treated with external ventricular drain and then with ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. CONCLUSION: We suggest prompt surgical intervention upon diagnosis as a first choice of treatment in order to avoid further complications. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5875110/ /pubmed/29629227 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_37_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Surgical Neurology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Neurovascular: Case Report
Mohammed, Kazim
Iqbal, Javeed
Kamel, Hussein
Mathew, John
Al-Sulaiti, Ghanem
Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title_full Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title_fullStr Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title_short Obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: Case Report
title_sort obstructive hydrocephalus and facial nerve palsy secondary to vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia: case report
topic Neurovascular: Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29629227
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_37_17
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