Post-traumatic amaurosis secondary to paraophthalmic internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm treated with pipeline embolization device

James D Kim; Sean M Barber; Orlando M Diaz; Helen K Li; Robert E Jackson; Drew Hall; Andrew G Lee

doi:10.1097/WNO.0b013e3182a30427

Post-traumatic amaurosis secondary to paraophthalmic internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm treated with pipeline embolization device

J Neuroophthalmol. 2013 Dec;33(4):359-62. doi: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e3182a30427.

Authors

James D Kim¹, Sean M Barber, Orlando M Diaz, Helen K Li, Robert E Jackson, Drew Hall, Andrew G Lee

Affiliation

¹ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (JDK), University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Departments of Neurological Surgery (SMB) and Interventional Neuroradiology (OMD), Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, Texas; Department of Ophthalmology (HKL, AGL), Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; School of Bioinformatics (HKL), The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Ophthalmology (HKL), Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Ophthalmology (HKL, AGL), The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Department of Medicine (REJ, DH), The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas; Department of Medicine (REJ), Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery (AGL), Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; and Department of Ophthalmology (AGL), The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.

PMID: 24169369
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e3182a30427

Abstract

During evaluation for monocular visual loss, a 48-year-old woman was found to have a posttraumatic paraophthalmic internal carotid artery (ICA) pseudoaneurysm. She underwent reconstruction of the ophthalmic segment of the right ICA with a Pipeline embolization device but her vision did not return.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Angiography, Digital Subtraction
Blindness / complications*
Blindness / etiology*
Blindness / pathology
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain / pathology
Carotid Artery Injuries / etiology*
Carotid Artery Injuries / therapy*
Embolization, Therapeutic / methods*
Female
Fluorescein Angiography
Humans
Middle Aged
Retina / pathology
Retinal Vessels / pathology