{"pk":334,"title":"Spontaneous Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery Dissections in a Young Female with Headache","subtitle":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\nBACKGROUND\n: Spontaneous cervical artery dissection (sCAD) occurs when the intimal lining separates from the outer wall of the artery. Although rare, it is a common cause of stroke in young people. Presentations range from isolated headache to severe stroke symptoms.\nCASE REPORT:\n A 41-year-old woman with minimal past medical history presented with left-sided headache and transient right leg weakness and numbness. The patient underwent CT angiography of the neck that showed bilateral internal carotid artery dissections with a relative stenosis from pseudoaneurysm formation on the left. She was placed on a heparin drip and transitioned to warfarin but subsequently required stent placement ten days later. If this patient had not undergone CT angiography at the time of presentation, she may have suffered significant morbidity and possible mortality.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Case Reports","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7354b8k4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Jaffe","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wellspan York Hospital","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Thompson","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kehrl","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wellspan York Hospital","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-01-18T15:25:19-05:00","date_accepted":"2017-01-18T15:25:19-05:00","date_published":"2017-01-18T15:25:59-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/334/galley/100/download/"}]}