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American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Neurology, 23(80), p. 2168-2168, 2013

DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318295d66f

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Arteriovenous fistula after ventriculostomy in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Journal article published in 2013 by Karl Meisel, Alan Yee, Charles Stout, Warren Kim, Daniel Cooke ORCID, Van Halbach
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A 66-year-old woman was found unresponsive after complaining of severe headache several days prior. She was comatose upon initial evaluation and a cranial CT revealed diffuse subarachnoid hemorrhage. A right posterior communicating artery aneurysm (figure, A, arrow) was successfully treated with endovascular embolization. Conventional angiography performed 7 days following ventriculostomy placement for hydrocephalus demonstrated interval development of a traumatic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) filling by the middle meningeal artery (figure, C, D, arrow). The AVF was treated with intra-arterial embolization. Ventriculostomy-associated AVF has rarely been reported.(1) Outcomes of untreated iatrogenic AVF are unknown, but could lead to hemorrhagic complications.