Recurrent Transient Ischemic Attacks Caused by Postprandial Hypotension in a Patient with Occlusion of Right Internal Carotid Artery.
- Author:
Jinkwon KIM
1
;
Yohan JUNG
;
Sang Won HAN
;
Byung In LEE
;
Kyung HEO
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. kheo@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Postprandial hypotension;
Orthostatic hypotension;
Transient ischemic attack
- MeSH:
Aged;
Carotid Artery, Internal*;
Cerebral Angiography;
Humans;
Hypotension*;
Hypotension, Orthostatic;
Ischemic Attack, Transient*;
Meals
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association
2006;24(4):356-358
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We report a 72-year-old man suffering from recurrent attacks of transient drowsy mentality during meal or on orthostatic body position. Markedly disturbed collateral blood flow to right hemisphere was observed on conventional cerebral angiography. Acute and old ischemic lesions in the right internal borderzone area were also noticed on magnetic resonance image. Postprandial and orthostatic hypotension in the present case could be the cause of the recurrent neurological deficit developed in the primarily disturbed collaterals in the right middle cerebral territory.
