Abstract

Herein, we are describing an unusual case suffering from a left anterior cerebral artery aneurysm (A1). Both the anterior cerebral arteries were supplied by the left internal carotid artery as was found in digital substraction angiography (DSA) preoperatively. The postoperative angiograms revealed that left anterior cerebral artery was supplied from the left internal carotid artery and the right anterior cerebral artery by the right internal carotid artery respectively. This finding of cerebral angiograms is interesting and rarely mentioned in the literature. Its hemodynamic change and pathogenesis were unclear and different to that of the coronary circulation, ischemic change of gut and skeletal muscle. The causes may include: 1) vasospasm at the anterior communicating artery after manipulation at surgery; 2) desiccation or shrivelling the adjacent artery by intraoperative electrocoagulation; 3) occlusion the anterior communicating artery by the wing of clip. 4) the deprivation of the blood flow from the left internal carotid artery after totally or partially narrowing left A1 by an aneurysm clip. The redistribution of blood volume in the previously hypoplastic right anterior cerebral artery and decreased caliber of the left anterior cerebral artery (A1) are likely playing a role in this case.

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