Ischemic Stroke Caused by Vertebral Artery Compression at C1 with a Floating Thrombus in an Incomplete Arcuate Foramen
Kei Miyata, Shogo Fujita, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Takada, Daisuke Shimbo, Sogo Oki, Katsuyuki Asaoka · 2026
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Description
Kei Miyata and six colleagues describe a stroke caused by a vertebral artery squeezed at the first neck vertebra. An incomplete bony arch, called an arcuate foramen, pressed on the vessel, and a floating clot formed there. Such compression is a rare stroke mechanism, and the case shows how the team untangled two-sided disease.
The older woman arrived with vertigo and unsteady walking, and scans showed fresh infarcts in both lower cerebellar territories. The left artery carried the clot at the squeeze point, while the right artery, on which brain flow depended, was also narrowed lower down. Surgeons stented the right artery first, then closed the left one to remove the clot source, in a single session.
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| CREATOR | Kei Miyata, Shogo Fujita, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, Tatsuro Takada, Daisuke Shimbo, Sogo Oki, Katsuyuki Asaoka |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |