ABSTRACT
Los aneurismas se definen como dilataciones localizadas y permanentes que suponen un incremento del calibre del vaso mayor del 50%. En la carótida interna son poco frecuentes, de etiología casi siempre aterosclerótica y aparecen con mayor frecuencia en mujeres mayores de 60 años. La porción cavernosa de la arteria carótida interna raramente sufre ruptura y tiene una clínica variada que incluye cefalea, diplopía, parálisis de los nervios oculomotores y dolor facial. Presentamos el caso clínico de un paciente del Hospital Vargas de Caracas con aneurisma gigante de arteria carótida derecha en seno cavernoso, quien inició de forma súbita cefalea holocraneana, acompañada de oftalmoplejía, midriasis, disminución de la agudeza visual y sin signos de irritación meníngea, que se manejó de forma médica conservadora con evolución satisfactoria
Aneurysms are defined as permanent expansions of the artery with an increase of arterial blood of 50 %. The ethiology is mostly atherosclerotic, and they appear more frequently in 60-year old women. The clinical presentation is more frequent with migraine, diplopya, paralysis of the oculomotor nerves and facial pain. We present a case of a patient with a gigantic aneurysm of the cavernous sinus of the carotid artery treated at the Hospital Vargas de Caracas, Venezuela. This patient had a sudden severe migraine, accompanied of ophthalmoplegia, mydriasis, impaired vision, without signs of meningeal irritation. The treatment was medical with satisfactory progress of the patient
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Aged, 80 and over , Intracranial Aneurysm/diagnosis , Aneurysm/diagnosis , Carotid Arteries/pathology , Cavernous Sinus/abnormalities , Vision, Low/pathology , Headache/pathology , Diplopia/pathologyABSTRACT
Mulher de 76 anos de idade portadora de estenose da valva mitral faleceu em decorrência de embolia arterial periférica. A necrópsia demonstrou associaçäo de comunicaçäo entre átrio esquerdo e seio venoso coronário, estenose do óstio deste segmento venoso e estenose da valva mitral
Woman, 76 years old with mitral stenosis died due to peripherical arterial embolism. The necropsy identified left atrial to coronary sinus fenestration associated with stenosis of the coronary sinus ostium and rheumatic mitral stenosis