Permanent Visual Loss and Stroke Due to Carotid Artery Dissection | 2002, Volume 8 - Issue 4

İbrahim AYDOĞDU, Ayşın KISABAY, Nilgün ARAÇ

Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Nöroloji ABD

Keywords: dissection, karotid artery, ocular ischemiastroke, retinal artery, ischemic optic neuropathy

Abstract

The typical clinical features of carotid artery dissection are transient or permanent cerebral ischemic deficits assosiated with pain in the ipsilateral head and face. Permanent visual loss due todissection is rare. In this article, a 30 year old patient with simultaneous permanent visual loss and hemiparesis due to right internal karotid arter dissection is presented.