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This was a patient who had known Marfan syndrome,
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and I just wanted to show you one of the complications
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that one can get with Marfan syndrome.
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If we look at the right common carotid artery,
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beginning down here in the mediastinum,
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and we follow the right common carotid artery,
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we come to the bifurcation here.
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At the bifurcation of the right common carotid artery
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into the external and internal carotid artery,
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we note a linear area of abnormal density.
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This is this little line right in the proximal
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right internal carotid artery,
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which should not be there.
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We can follow that up.
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So as we scroll upward,
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we see that this line persists within the internal
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carotid artery on the right side.
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It goes and separates it into two chrysanthic areas,
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and it persists even going up throughout into
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the petrous internal carotid artery.
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So throughout the cervical portion,
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we have that little line.
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That's an area of dissection within the blood vessel,
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which is one of the complications of Marfan syndrome
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and is an intrinsic carotid sheath pathology.
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