ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026A563 A JAILED FREE-FLOATING CAVERNOUS INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY THROMBUS CAUSING RECURRENT AMAUROSIS FUGAX
Curtis Amankwah, John Arbucci, Abenezer Bati, Theodore Katner, Mike Lee, Sohyun Boo, Daniel Mandel · 2026
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Curtis Amankwah and co-authors report an unusual trapped clot case in a 2026 conference abstract. A free-floating clot in the carotid artery is an uncommon but dangerous cause of stroke. Their patient, a 59-year-old man, kept losing vision briefly in his right eye. Scans found the cause: a clot floating in a sealed-off stretch of the artery inside the skull.
The clot sat trapped between two blockages, one in the neck and one deeper in. That isolated segment stayed alive only on backward flow from a face artery through the eye artery. Brain scans showed tiny fresh strokes, while the eye itself looked normal. Given the low stroke score and tricky anatomy, the team chose against vessel surgery. The abstract lays out the rare flow pattern behind the warning symptom.
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| CREATOR | Curtis Amankwah, John Arbucci, Abenezer Bati, Theodore Katner, Mike Lee, Sohyun Boo, Daniel Mandel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |