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Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a type of non-arteriosclerotic, non-inflammatory vascular lesion that occurs mainly in the media of small- and medium-sized arteries. FMD can be diagnosed by cerebral angiography or pathology, and the string-of-beads feature is specific to FMD. FMD is common among middle-aged women, and the incidence is lower in Japan than in Europe and the United States. There is no clear evidence on the benefits of endovascular intervention for acute revascularization of dissecting FMD lesions. Moreover, in Japan, there are no reports of bilateral internal carotid artery (ICA) stenting for progressive dissecting FMD lesions, which occur frequently in the main trunk artery. We report a 50-year-old woman who visited the clinic with a complaint of headache. The patient was referred to our hospital because of right ICA dissection, as identified by head and neck magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). At admission, the patient was conscious, and her only symptom was headache. No neurological dropout was observed. We performed urgent cerebral angiography and observed narrowing of the right ICA at the second cervical vertebra and blood vessel wall irregularity in the third segment of the left vertebral artery. On the seventh day of illness, MRA showed vascular wall irregularity in the left ICA as a new lesion, and left ICA dissection was diagnosed. Progression of the left ICA lesion was observed on the 12th day of illness. We performed left ICA stenting on the 15th day of illness. The patient progressed without postoperative neurological symptoms, and headache improved. No vertebral artery lesion exacerbation was observed. On the 22nd day of illness, preventive stent placement of the right ICA dissection was performed. After surgery, the patient was discharged home on the 31st day of illness without complications. Follow-up imaging is required for suspected FMD, and endovascular treatment may be effective for advanced lesions.