RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS AND VERTEBRAL ARTERY-OCCLUSION - A CASE-REPORT WITH ANGIOGRAPHIC AND MAGNETIC-RESONANCE DEMONSTRATION

Authors
LOEB M BOOKMAN A MIKULIS D
Citation
M. Loeb et al., RHEUMATOID-ARTHRITIS AND VERTEBRAL ARTERY-OCCLUSION - A CASE-REPORT WITH ANGIOGRAPHIC AND MAGNETIC-RESONANCE DEMONSTRATION, Journal of rheumatology, 20(8), 1993, pp. 1402-1405
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Rheumatology
Journal title
Journal of rheumatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0315162X
Volume
20
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1402 - 1405
Database
ISI
SICI code
0315-162X(1993)20:8<1402:RAVA-A>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
40-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who presented with ve rtigo and nausea, was found to have left vertebral artery occlusion on angiography. There was minimal atlantoaxial subluxation and no odonto id herniation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was suggestive of a le ft vertebral artery dissection. This is the first report of MRI of ver tebral artery occlusion in RA. It will be important to accumulate MR i mages of this complication in future cases.