Article
Heritable connective tissue disorders in cervical artery dissections: a prospective study.
Neurology - 1 Apr 1998
Schievink W I, Wijdicks E F, Michels V V, Vockley J, Godfrey M
Abstract excerpt
We prospectively evaluated 15 consecutive patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections. Three patients (20%) had a heritable connective tissue disorder, each with a unique phenotype. None of these patients met the criteria of any of the named syndromes, and collagen and fibrillin analyse...
Topics
- Adult
- Aortic Dissection
- Cerebral Angiography
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Female
- Humans
- Intracranial Aneurysm
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Prospective Studies