What is fenestration of the basilar artery?

Basilar artery fenestration (or more simply, basilar fenestration) is the most common intracranial arterial fenestration and most common congenital anomaly of the basilar artery. This anatomic variant is characterized by duplication of a portion of the artery that are connected proximally and distally.

What causes basilar artery fenestration?

Artery fenestration is a rare congenital vascular dysplasia caused by incomplete fusion of primitive embryologic vessels, which are divided into two separate channels and converge at the distal end (1).

What happens when basilar artery is blocked?

Most commonly, patients experiencing basilar artery occlusion exhibit acute neurologic signs including motor deficits, hemiparesis or quadriparesis, and facial palsies, dizziness, headache, and speech abnormalities–especially dysarthria and difficulty articulating words.

What does fenestration mean in medical terms?

Medical Definition of fenestration 1a : a natural or surgically created opening in a surface. b : the presence of such openings. 2 : a surgical procedure that involves cutting an opening in the bony labyrinth between the inner ear and tympanum to replace natural fenestrae that are not functional (as in otosclerosis)

What I can do to improve my basilar artery?

Treatment for vertebrobasilar insufficiency

  1. Medication and lifestyle changes. Patients who have vertebrobasilar insufficiency, a history of stroke, or TIA (“mini-stroke”) should quit smoking immediately, attempt to lower cholesterol levels through diet, and exercise regularly.
  2. Open surgical repair.
  3. Endovascular repair.

How is basilar artery occlusion treated?

Recanalization of the basilar artery is key to the successful treatment of basilar artery thrombosis and to improving its prognosis.

How common is basilar artery aneurysm?

Basilar trunk artery aneurysms are extremely rare lesions that account for only 2.1% of all intracranial aneurysms. They are mostly recognized in patients around the age of 60, show a slight male predominance, and are associated with high morbidity and mortality.

What is a heart fenestration?

Fenestration closure after a Fontan operation is a procedure to close the hole between your child’s heart and the tunnel that takes oxygen-poor blood from the body to the lungs. The procedure is done in the heart catheterization lab.