Anterior Choroidal Artery Territory Infarction due to Internal Carotid Artery Dissection Presumably Caused by Scuba Diving
- Author:
Daeun SHIN
1
;
Yang-Ha HWANG
;
Dong-Hyun SHIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:증례
- From:Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 2020;38(4):298-300
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: We report a case of anterior choroidal artery territory infarction due to internal carotid artery dissection presumably caused by scuba diving. A 44-year-old man presented with left facial palsy and hemiparesis. He had a history of scuba diving for 18 months. His last dive was 7 days ago, and he skipped decompression practice at that dive. We assumed that repetitive traumas and microbubbles during scuba diving, which made endothelium vulnerable to damage may have caused a carotid dissection.
