Recurrent spontaneous arterial dissections: risk in familial versus nonfamilial disease

Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation
W I SchievinkJ D Kuiper

Abstract

Among patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections, the risk of recurrent arterial dissection is relatively low at 1% per year, but this risk may be higher for patients with a family history of arterial dissections. We compared the risk of a recurrent arterial dissection in patients with familial versus non familial disease. Long-term follow-up was established in 200 patients (104 women and 96 men with a mean age of 44.9 years) with spontaneous cervical artery dissections evaluated at a single institution between 1970 and 1990. Among the 200 patients, 10 (5%) were identified who had a family history of spontaneous arterial dissections. In a multivariate analysis, family history was the only significant variable associated with the risk of recurrent dissection (X2=15.51; P=.0001). A recurrent arterial dissection was identified in 5 (50%) of the 10 patients with familial disease compared with 11 (5.8%) of the 190 patients with nonfamilial disease, with an estimated relative risk of 6.3 (95% confidence interval, 2.2 to 18.3; P=.0007). Among patients with spontaneous cervical artery dissections, a family history of arterial dissection is an important risk factor for the development of a recurrent arterial dissection.

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