Rationale of the surgical treatment of carotid kinking

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-85

  Greco, Franco ^a   Lepidi, S ^a   Cognolato, D ^a   Frigatti, P ^a   Morelli, I ^a   Deriu, G P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain ischemia; Carotid artery, abnormalities; Carotid artery, surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY ANOMALY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYMPTOM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037732637     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Rosenthal D, Stanton PE, Lamis PA, McCluski D. Surgical correction of the kinked carotid artery. Am J Surg 1981;141:295-6.
2. Deriu GP, Frigatti P, Grego F, Milite D, Cognolato D, Franceschi L et al. Surgical role in the internal carotid elongation and tortuosity. Angiol Vasc Surg 1995;151-70.
3. Cairney J. Tortuosity of the cervical segment of the internal carotid artery. J Anat 1924;59:87-93.
4. Wiebel J, Fields WS. Tortuosity, coiling and kinking of the internal carotid artery. Etiology and radiografic anatomy. Neurology 1965;15:7-11.
5. Carney AL, Evelyn MA. Hypoglossal carotid entrapment syndrome. Adv Neurol 1981;30:223-47.
6. Greenhill NS, Sthehbens WF. Haemodynamically-induced intimal tears in experimental U-shaped arterial loops as seen by seanning electron microscopy. Br J Exp Pathol 1985;66:577-84.
7. Stehbens WF. Experimental arterial loops and arterial atrophy. Exp Mol Pathol 1986;44:177-89.
8. Danza R, Baldizan J, Navarro T. Surgery of carotid kinking and fibromuscolar dysplasia. J Cardiovasc Surg 1983;24:628-33.
9. Bauer R, Sheman FC, Meyer JS. Arteriographic study of cerebrovascular disease. Cerebral symptoms due to kinking, tortuosity, and compression of carotid and vertebral arteries in the neek. Arch Neurol 1961;4:119-31.
10. Shirley MO, Bend Ringelstein E. Principles and applications of transcranial Doppler sonography. In: Bernstein EF, editor. Vascular diagnosis. St. Louis, USA: Mosby Year Book; 1993.p.341-60.
11. Schechter DC. Dolichocarotid syndrome. Cerebral ischemia related to cervical carotid artery redundancy with kinking I and II. N Y State J Med 1979;79:1391-7.
12. Leipzig TJ, Dohrmann GJ. The tortuous or kinked carotid artery: pathogenesis and clinical considerations. A historical review. Surg Neurol 1986;25:478-86.
13. Trackler RT, Mikulicich AG. Diminished cerebral perfusion resulting from kinking of the internal carotid artery. J Nucl Med 1974;15: 634-5.
14. Derrik JR, Smith T. Carotid kinking as cause of cerebral insufficiency. Circulation 1962;25:859-63.
15. Derrik JR, Kirksey TD, Estess M, Williams D. Kinking of the carotid arteries: clinical consideration. Am Surg 1986;32:503-6.
16. Stanton PE Jr, McClusky DA Jr, Lamis PA. Hemodynamic assessment and surgical correction of kinking of the internal carotid artery. Surgery 1978;84:793-802.
17. Derrik JR, Estess H, Williams D. Circulatory dynamics in kinking of the carotid artery. Surgery 1965;32:381-3.
18. Metz H, Murray-Leslie RH, Bannister RG. Kinking of the internal carotid artery in relation to cerebrovascular disease. Lancet 1961;1:424-6.
19. Stehbens WF, Phil D, Conan JFEF. Hydrodynamic flow in U-shaped and coiled glass loops simulating carotid arterial configurations. Angiology 1985;60:442-51.
20. Radonic V, Baric D, Giunio L, Buca A, Sapunar D, Marovic A. Surgical treatment of kinked internal carotid artery. J Cardiovasc Surg 1998;39:557-63.
21. Horsch S, Ktenidis K, Berg P. Boucles et plicatures des arteres carotides et vertebrales indications de la chirurgie. J Mal Vasc 1994;19:55-9.