Acute Cerebellar Infarction After Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
Journal Title: Journal of Neurological Sciences-Turkish - Year 2012, Vol 29, Issue 2
Abstract
Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is considered a very safe and effective procedure to treat painful compression fractures, and this procedure rarely results in complications. To our knowledge, there is only one case report of the complications associated with cerebral infarction after PV. Here, we report a rare case of postoperative acute cerebellar infarction that was caused by vertebral artery occlusion. We present a rare case of left acute cerebellar infarction that developed approximately 6 h after PV in an 82-year-old woman. Brain magnetic resonance (MR) angiography showed complete occlusion of the left vertebral artery. The patient was treated conservatively. To the best of our knowledge, acute cerebellar infarction after PV has yet not been reported. Although we cannot rule out the possibility of embolism because the patient was in the prone position with her head rotated during the operation, there are no specific links between acute arterial infarction and PV. Thus, this complication may be incidental rather than causal. Nevertheless, special attention should be paid to the postoperative variable changes in aged patients.
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Ki EOM, Kim NA
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