Combined treatment of wounded with traumatic aneurysm of posterior communicating artery complicated by intraventricular hemorrhage

Cerebral blood vessel trauma (CBVT) is a serious condition of craniocerebral injury. According to literature data, different varieties of CBVT in penetrating gunshot craniocerebral injuries are found in 30–45 % of cases. Traumatic pseudoaneurysms are the most common finding in late evaluation and can lead to life-threatening episodes of intracranial hemorrhage.In addition, CBVT includestraumatic occlusion, dissection of vessels, rupture of cerebral arteries, formation of arteriovenous fistulas (carotid-cavernous anastomoses), venous stasis, etc. Injured persons with traumatic dissection and injury of vertebrobasilar pool have the highest risks of lethal outcome. There are no largerandomised trials and national recommendations for the treatment of CBVT, individual observations and small series of clinical cases have been published. In this connection, there is a need for a detailed analysis of all clinical cases, the development of tactics for early diagnosis and an algorithm for the treatment of wounded with CBVT.
The article presents a review of the literature data that characterizes the current understanding of CBVT, and a clinical case of traumatic occlusion of the middle cerebral artery and pseudoaneurysm of the posterior communicating artery in a wounded man with a gunshot penetrating cranioorbital wound, who was treated at the neurosurgical center of the N.N. Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital.
In the early period after the injury, the patient underwent endovasal occlusion of a traumatic aneurysm of the posterior connective artery by microspirals followed by local thrombolysis of intraventricular hematomas through a ventricular catheter. The catamnesis was 150 days, the score on the modified Rankin scale was 3, the Glasgow outcome scale extended was 5.

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