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However, cases of spontaneous dissection are also widespread, with risk factors such as hypertension, migraine, and lifestyle factors increasing the risk of occurrence. Clinically, the symptoms associated with a cerebrovascular event caused by CADs are highly variable and can be classified as either compressive symptoms (such as Horner\u2019s syndrome and cervical pain) or stroke syndromes attributable to cerebral ischemia. Therefore, establishing an early diagnosis might be particularly challenging as it requires particular attention and quick clinical reasoning when interviewing the patient. With these certain particularities, our main focus was to conduct a prospective study involving up to 54 patients who were diagnosed with CAD in our clinical facility between January 2015 and December 2022, with the focus of assessing certain individual parameters attributable to each patient and their influence and prognosis value for their short and long term evolution. 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