Research Paper - The International Tinnitus Journal (2002) Volume 8, Issue 1

A New Therapeutic Procedure for Treatment of Objective Venous Pulsatile Tinnitus

Pulsatile tinnitus usually means a turbulent flow within the vessels. We describe a 54-year-old man with a disabling objective pulsatile tinnitus due to a diverticulum of the sigmoid sinus toward the ipsilateral mastoid. We performed a surgical intervention via the endovascular route using coils to obliterate the diverticulum and a stent to avoid coil migration . The patient had a complete and immediate remission of the pulsatile tinnitus. This procedure has been described only in arterial circulation.

Author(s): Tanit Ganz Sanchez, Marcia Murao, Halo Roberto Torres de Medeiros,l Marcia Kii,l Ricardo Ferreira Bento,Jose Guilherme Caldas, Carlos Alberto Alvarez, and Carlos Henrique Raggiott

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