In a prospective study of 10 patients in 2 years we investigated the role of early anticoagulatio and folow-up with non invasive studies on patients with intra and extracranial arterial dissections. Arterial dissections are an infrequent cause of Cerebrovascular Disease, despite that at presents they are diagnosed with increased frequency...

The most common complications are:

distal embolization, complete occlusion of a vessel or aneurysmatic dilatations.Intracranial dissections have a poorer prognosis as compared with extracranial dissections, specially because they can originate a Subarachnoid hemorrhage.The authors study pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnoisis and treatment, and the results oabtained with the management instituted are described