Daugherty Wilson P, Clarke Michelle J, Cloft Harry J, Lanzino Giuseppe L
Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street Southwest, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2009 Dec;4(6):528-31. doi: 10.3171/2009.7.PEDS09107.
Intracranial aneurysms in the pediatric population are relatively rare entities. Immunocompromised patients (often from HIV/AIDS or pharmacological immunosuppression) represent a significant fraction of children with cerebral aneurysms. One proposed mechanism of aneurysm formation in these patients is from direct infection of the affected arteries. In this study, the authors report on a case of a 14-year-old girl with common variable immunodeficiency with T-cell dysfunction and a CSF polymerase chain reaction test positive for varicella-zoster virus who underwent evaluation for carotid and basilar artery fusiform aneurysms.
