Bonegroup2012
7HistoryMale,62yearsoldAtransientsyncopeSphygmus:72times/min,left--weakBloodpressure:rightarm—110/70mmHgleftarm—70/50mmHgPossiblediagnosis
FinaldiagnosisImageimpression:Subclavianarterywallcalcification,stenosis;thrombosiscannotbeexcludedClinicaldiagnosis:SubclavianStealSyndrome(SSS)SubclavianStealSyndromeDefinition:Subclavianstealsyndromeistheproximalsubclavianarteryorinnominatearteryobstruction(causedbyavarietyofreasons),Subclavianarterydistalintraluminalpressuredecreased,ipsilateralbloodpressurebelowthevertebral–basilararterialpressure---syphonage,soresultinSSSClinicalmanifestationsupperlimbsymptom:Somepatientscomplainedofweakness,numbnessandpainwhentheupperlimbsexerciseVertebrobasilarinsuficiencysymptom:Syncope,dizziness,vertigo,standinginstabilityandocci