Case advice: Verterbral artery injury

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Eric
 
I agree with you that the value of embolizing blunt  vertebral artery 
occlusion has not been determined. 
 
However, i am not aware of any data on "risks of vertebral artery  
embolization" for traumatic vertebral injury, "all sorts of interventions that  are 
unproven and more likely to cause harm than doing nothing."  
 
Actually this is a technically simple procedure and my complication  rate in 
more than 40 cases is ZERO. please show me the data that the risk of  
embolization exceed that of doing nothing.
 
sal
In a message dated 7/9/2004 7:22:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
DocRickFry at aol.com writes:

"treating" asymptomatic patients with vertebral artery, on the other  hand, 
is virtually nonexistent, and we are talking about imposing significant  
interventions that put patient at risk.
Now--as I challenged before, and  again so typically was not met--if you 
disagree, please provide the data to  support this stance? 


 
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