Medical and Interventional Therapy for Spontaneous Vertebral Artery Dissection in the Craniocervical Segment

Table 1

Summary of characteristics of the 14 patients with SVAD treated by stenting.

Patient	Sex	Age	HT	FHS	DM	Signs/symptoms	SVAD location	VA dominance	Devel of con-VA	NIHSS	mRS	Follow-up (months)
1	m	39				A/N/T/V/H	V3(L)/DoVA(−)			2	0	6
2	m	38				A/N/V/P	V3(R)/DoVA(+)			1	0	12
3	m	41				N/T/V/P	V2(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	9
4	m	29				A/N/V	V2(R)/DoVA(+)			1	0	36
5	m	46				A/N/T/V	V3(R)/DoVA(+)			1	0	24
6	m	38				A/N/V/P	V3(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	36
7	m	45				A/N/T/H	V2(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	60
8	f	33				D&D	V3(L)/DoVA(+)			3	1	48
9	m	37				A/N/T/V	V3(R)/DoVA(+)			1	0	48
10	m	40				A/N/P	V2(L)/DocVA(−)			1	0	30
11	f	46				A/N/T/H	V3(R)/DoVA(+)			1	0	24
12	m	28				A/T/H	V2(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	30
13	m	35				A/N/T/H	V3(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	36
14	m	36				A/V/H	V2(L)/DoVA(+)			1	0	48

A: ataxia; N: nystagmus; T: tinnitus; V: vomiting; H: headache; P: neck pain; D&D: dysphagia and dysarthria; m: male; f: female; SVAD: spontaneous vertebral artery dissection; VA: vertebral artery; Devel of con-VA: development of contralateral vertebral artery distal to the orifice of PICA (posterior inferior cerebellar artery); NIHSS: National Institute of Health stroke scale; mRS: modified Rankin score; V3: the third segment of vertebral artery; V2: the second segment of vertebral artery; L: left; R: right; DoVA(+): dissection on the dominant vertebral artery; DoVA(−): dissection on the nondominant vertebral artery; HT: hypertension; FHS: family history of stroke; DM: diabetes mellitus.