Publications by authors named "Takato Hiramine"

Parent artery occlusion is a definitive treatment method for preventing rebleeding of dissecting aneurysms. We herein report a case of a ruptured distal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) dissecting aneurysm treated with internal trapping using n-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate (NBCA). A 65-year-old man visited our hospital with a complaint of headache and neck pain that began 1 week before his arrival.

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Hidden bow hunter's syndrome (HBHS) is a rare disease in which the vertebral artery (VA) occludes in a neutral position but recanalizes in a particular neck position. We herein report an HBHS case and assess its characteristics through a literature review. A 69-year-old man had repeated posterior-circulation infarcts with right VA occlusion.

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Article Synopsis
  • * An 86-year-old man with severe AS and carotid disease experienced cognitive decline; brain imaging revealed significant carotid occlusions and infarction, indicating poor blood flow.
  • * The patient was successfully treated with a staged approach using both carotid angioplasty and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), with no complications reported during the procedures.
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Objective: We report a case of embolic occlusion of the common carotid artery (CCA) in which a giant thrombus was retrieved using the parallel stent retriever technique.

Case Presentation: An 84-year-old woman without anticoagulant therapy despite a history of cardioembolic stroke presented to our hospital because of left hemiparesis after developing sudden vision loss in her right eye. Emergency angiography revealed a giant thrombus in the right CCA.

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