The role of continuous-wave Doppler sonography in the diagnosis and management of basilar and vertebral artery occlusions, with special reference to its application during local fibrinolysis
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Zeitschrift für Neurologie
- Vol. 228 (3) , 161-170
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00313728
Abstract
In general, the prognosis of bilateral vertebral or basilar artery occlusions is very poor. No satisfactory management of this condition is known; in addition, the early diagnosis of severe lesions of the “intradural vertebrobasilar artery” on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms alone is difficult and regularly requires invasive procedures. Continuous-wave Doppler sonography has proved to be of great value in the primary diagnosis of vertebrobasilar thrombosis. In two cases, in whom bilateral intracranial vertebral artery lesions and basilar thrombosis were successfully treated with the help of local intraarterial fibrinolysis, Doppler sonography proved to be a reliable diagnostic tool for the evaluation and the non-invasive follow-up of thrombolysis. Clinical, Doppler sonographic and angiographic findings are presented and correlated. Es wird über zwei Fälle mit subtotaler Stenosierung beziehungsweise Verschluß der „intraduralen Vertebrobasilararterie“ berichtet, bei denen unter lokaler intravertebraler Applikation von Streptokinase eine Thrombolyse auftrat, die mit einer eindrucksvollen Besserung der neurologischen Ausfälle der Patienten einherging. Die Prognose derartiger Gefäßläsionen, vor allem der Basilaristhrombose, ist bekanntermaßen sehr ungünstig. Die Dopplersonographie stellt nicht nur im Vorfeld invasiver Gefäßdiagnostik eine entscheidende Hilfe dar, sie ermöglicht zudem eine nichtinvasive und dennoch verläßliche Verlaufskontrolle der Streptokinasetherapie im vertebrobasilären Kreislauf. Klinische, Doppler-sonographische und angiographische Befunde werden mitgeteilt und einander zugeordnet.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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