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A 58-year-old woman suffered a fall in the morning of January 1, 2017. A few hours later she was admitted with symptoms of disorientation and dysarthria. The CT showed an extensive subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and a further CTA disclosed a peripheral aneurysm of the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA). The aneurysm was treated with a p64 flow diverter. DSA follow-up confirmed the obliteration of the aneurysm while the PICA remained patent. The patient made a complete recovery. This case illustrates the benefit of parent artery preservation and confirms previous experiences that treatment with flow diverters prevents recurrent hemorrhage from peripheral dissecting PICA aneurysms.
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Felber, S., Daoun, A. (2018). Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysm: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage after a Minor Trauma, Fusiform Dissecting Aneurysm, Treatment with a p64 Flow Diverter. In: Henkes, H., Lylyk, P., Ganslandt, O. (eds) The Aneurysm Casebook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70267-4_10-2
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