Association between carotid artery dissection and vascular tortuosity: a case–control study

PurposeWe aimed to verify if vascular tortuosity (VT) may represent a risk factor for spontaneous epiaortic vessel dissection (sEVD) in young adult patients.MethodsWe identified 304 patients aged under 55 years consecutively admitted for acute cerebrovascular events to our Stroke Unit. After checking the possibility to perform a 3D reconstruction of epiaortic vessels on CT-angiography images, we selected and compared fifty patients with sEVD...