Vejerano APP, Vargas CJJ, Ramos LCR, Vejerano GPP

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Fibromuscular dysplasia is even considered an organization of unknown origin mainly affects women in middle age of life with a 3:1 relation respect to the man and most frequently it damages the renal arteries in the 85 percent of the patients. We present the case of a woman of 85 years of age with antecedents of ischemic transitory attacks in territory of the left internal carotid artery that soon when demonstrating themselves the presence of injuries in the same one and continuing its signs and symptoms is put under surgery.

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