Spontaneous Healing of Intracranial Dural Fistula Z. Jamaleddine, R Labbioui, F. A El Quessar Department of radiology Cheikh Zaid hospital RABAT- MOROCCO
OBSERVATION Patient 53 years Installation of a rapidly progressive cerbellar syndrome with vertigo, Gait and speech disorder.
MAY18th 2010: Initial arteriography was performed, AVF. External carotid unexplored.
June 5th 2010: A second angiogrphy An significant slowdown of the fistula No abnormality of the external carotid angiograms.
December 9th 2010: The last inspection was performed after 6 months, normal.
Discussion Spontaneous recovery is rare, Few cases reported in the literature. Several assumptions: Thrombosis of the sinus drainage. Cerebral hemorrhage with mass effect of hematoma. Vasospasm . Post angiography.
The majority of spontaneous recovery of interest to the type I (table), the sudden disappearance of the symptoms and spontaneous is the most common clinical presentation. Alain Luciani, Emmanuel Houdart, Charbel Mounayer,Jean-Pierre Saint Maurice and Jean-Jacques Merland, Spontaneous Closure of Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Report of Three Cases and Review of the Literature, American Journal of Neuroradiology 22:992-996 (5 2001).
Conclusion Spontaneous closure of the dural fistula is a rare event and are interested mainly type I fistulas, the sudden disappearance of symptoms is the usual clinical presentation.
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