Bow Hunter Syndrome

Bow hunter syndrome is a rare form of vertebrobasilar insufficiency caused by occlusion or stenosis of the VA during head rotation along the craniocervical axis.

Bow hunter syndrome. Bow hunter syndrome so named because of the heads position when a person is shooting an arrowis a condition affecting children and adults in which turning the head compresses blood vessels. Hunter syndrome is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase I2S. The syndrome occurs when rotating the head to the side and having the vertebral artery become temporarily occluded due to an abnormal bone spur or ligament.

Hunter syndrome progresses slowly and its signs and symptoms overlap with a number of other disorders so a definitive diagnosis may take awhile. The patient underwent successful resection of the osteophyte via anterior surgical approach and his symptoms of headache and dizziness dissipated postoperatively. Bow hunter syndrome BHS is an uncommon cause of vertebrobasilar insufficiency that results from occlusion or injury to the vertebral artery VA during neck rotation.

Bow hunters syndrome is due to vertebrobasilar insufficiency caused by rotational compression of the vertebral artery. You could have bow hunters syndrome or rotational vertebral artery occlusion as its officially. In middle-aged patients syncopal attack may be caused by cardiovascular and neurological disease and differential diagnosis is sometimes difficult.

2012 Bow-hunters syndrome caused by dynamic vertebral artery stenosis at the cranio-cervical junction a management algorithm based on a systematic review and a clinical series. A urine sample can be checked for the deficient enzyme or for excess amounts of the complex sugar molecules associated with this disorder. Rotational vertebral artery occlusion syndrome also known as bow hunters syndrome is a rare form of vertebrobasilar insufficiency secondary to dynamic compression of the usually-dominant vertebral artery.

Do you get dizzy feel vertigo or notice tingling when you turn your head or neck a certain way. Hunter syndrome or mucopolysaccharidosis type II MPS II is a rare genetic disorder in which large sugar molecules called glycosaminoglycans or GAGs or mucopolysaccharides build up in body tissues. This phenomenon may also be reproduced along subaxial.

Bow hunter syndrome so named because of the heads position when a person is shooting an arrow is a condition affecting children and adults in which turning the head compresses blood vessels supplying the back of the brain from the vertebral artery. The cause is often a bony abnormality that may compress the VA compromising distal flow or lead to vessel wall injury resulting in thromboembolism. It is a form of lysosomal storage disease.