ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026A2145 REVERSIBLE EXTRACRANIAL INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY VASOSPASM: INSIGHTS FROM 45 IDIOPATHIC CASES
Ezg İ Yilmaz, Aneesh Singhal, Okan Sokmen, Emrah Aytac, Hasan Huseyin Kozak, Eylem Ozaydin-Goksu, Sinan Balci, Anil Arat, Ethem Murat Arsava, Mehmet Akif Topcuoglu · 2026
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Description
A rare syndrome makes the neck's main brain artery clamp shut in spasms that later release on their own. Ezg Yilmaz and nine co-authors gathered 45 cases of this idiopathic carotid vasospasm in a 2026 conference report, mixing five new cases with a systematic review of published ones.
Most patients were women, and symptoms began at a median age of 27. Spasms often switched sides or struck both sides, and patients had a median of five attacks over about two years of follow-up. Nine in ten ended with good function. Common drug treatments, from blood thinners to steroids, did not clearly cut the attacks, yet three in five patients still received invasive procedures such as stents. The authors call for better data to guide care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ezg İ Yilmaz, Aneesh Singhal, Okan Sokmen, Emrah Aytac, Hasan Huseyin Kozak, Eylem Ozaydin-Goksu, Sinan Balci, Anil Arat, Ethem Murat Arsava, Mehmet Akif Topcuoglu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |