A Case of Ruptured Carotid Traumatic Blood Blister-like Aneurysm. 2023

Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, and Ryuta Nakae, and Fumihiro Matano, and Asami Kubota, and Akio Morita, and Yasuo Murai, and Shoji Yokobori
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Ruptured cerebral aneurysms that occur in the anterior wall of the internal carotid artery (ICA) are known as blood blister-like aneurysms (BBAs); they have been reported to account for 0.3% to 1% of all ruptured ICA aneurysms. In this report, we describe the treatment of an unusual traumatic BBA (tBBA) with high-flow bypass using a radial artery graft, which resulted in a favorable outcome. A 59-year-old female suffered from an acute epidural hematoma, traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic carotid-cavernous sinus fistula (tCCF) after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. Her angiography results showed tCCF and a tBBA on the anterior wall of the right ICA. On the fourth day after injury, we found rebleeding from the tBBA and performed an emergency high-flow bypass using a radial artery graft with lesion trapping as a curative procedure for the tCCF and tBBA. Postoperatively, right abducens nerve palsy appeared, but no other neurological symptoms were noted; the patient was thereafter transferred to a rehabilitation hospital 49 days after injury. Traumatic ICA aneurysms commonly occur close to the anterior clinoid process, form within 1 to 2 weeks of injury, and often rupture around 2 weeks after trauma. This case was considered rare as the ICA was likely injured and bleeding at the time of injury, resulting in a form of tBBA; this allowed early detection and appropriate treatment that resulted in a good outcome.

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