13 results for “vertebral artery dissection”
80y · Male·Complications of vertebral artery and right carotid artery vascular injuries (op…
An 80-year-old retired surgeon died from complications of vertebral artery and right carotid artery vascular injuries and cervical spine injuries sustained in a body surfin…
57y · Male·large volume ischaemic infarct (stroke)
…sturbance and gait difficulty in May 2013. Imaging at Launceston General Hospital on 30 May demonstrated vertebral artery dissection, but this was not recognised by the reporting radiologist. The dissection was only ide…
63y · Male·Cerebral infarction complicating vertebral artery dissection following motor veh…
Keith Walter Sharp, 63, sustained a motor vehicle collision causing vertebral artery dissection and subsequent cerebral infarction. At Albury Base Hospital, initial CT imaging at 10:…
31y · Female·right cerebellar cerebrovascular accident (cerebellar infarction with obstructiv…
…ve on Saturday afternoon, no reassessment occurred until next morning. The patient had actually suffered vertebral artery dissection causing cerebellar infarction. By Sunday she developed catastrophic cerebellar edema w…
35y · Female·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest due to vertebro…
…deteriorated at home and presented to a tertiary hospital where she suffered cardiac arrest from basilar/vertebral artery thrombosis due to vertebral artery dissection. The coroner found the initial assessment inadequat…
26y · Male·Upper cervical spinal cord injury
A 26-year-old man suffered an upper cervical spinal cord injury (C2 fracture with vertebral artery dissection) after diving head-first from Brooks Jetty into shallow water on New Year's Day 2008. …
25y · Male·traumatic basal subarachnoid haemorrhage due to vertebral artery dissection
…ghes, a 25-year-old professional cricketer, died from traumatic basal subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by vertebral artery dissection after being struck on the neck by a cricket ball during a Sheffield Shield match. The …
79y · Male·Displaced cervical vertebral fracture with secondary carotid artery dissection r…
…l approximately five metres. He sustained a burst fracture of the first cervical vertebra with traumatic dissection of the left internal carotid artery, resulting in stroke. He died two days later. Clinicians should reco…
80y · Male·Multiple injuries post fall from a roof
…at home. He fell approximately 2 metres from a ladder, sustaining rib, pelvis, and spine fractures, plus vertebral artery dissection. Hospital treatment was complicated by hospital-acquired pneumonia. He deteriorated an…
52y · Male·hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiac arrest due to unknown aetiology
…espite resuscitation and died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. Initially suspected to be caused by vertebral artery dissection from cervical manipulation, autopsy revealed no dissection but small thromboemboli of …
43y · Male·Complications of neck injury; specifically extensive brainstem infarction second…
Glenn William Strickland, an experienced Harley Davidson rider, died from brainstem infarction following severe cervical spinal injury sustained in a motorcycle crash on Julimar Road, Western Australia. He failed to nego…
54y · Female·Pneumonia - chest sepsis
Kim Elizabeth Taylor, a 54-year-old NDIS participant with quadriplegia and tracheostomy, died from pneumonia and chest sepsis at Austin Hospital. She had experienced recurrent ventilator-associated pneumonia, bronchiecta…
20y · Male·massive basal subarachnoid haemorrhage caused by a blow to the head
…in 1971 from a subarachnoid haemorrhage that was initially attributed to spontaneous rupture of a cerebral artery aneurysm. An inquest 45 years later, based on neuropathological expert evidence, found the haemorrhage was…
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