Bilateral carotid neo-bifurcation by symptomatic elongation of the common and internal carotid artery

Valentin Govedarski

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.18777

Valentin Govedarski¹, Elitsa Dimitrova¹, Zornitsa Vassileva²

¹Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Saint Ekaterina, Sofia, Bulgaristan
²Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cardiology Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2020.18777

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A 53-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinic with neurological and ophthalmological symptoms and resistant arterial hypertension. After two-stage operation including bilateral carotid resection and carotid neo-bifurcation creation, the blood flow through the vascular regions with abnormal hemodynamics returned to normal and the symptoms of the patient resolved completely.

Keywords : Carotid artery, dolichoarteriopathy, elongation, coiling, kinking, neo-bifurcation

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