Currently, there is no consensus on the most effective medical therapy for posterior circulation ischemia. To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet ...
Extracranial vertebral artery stenosis can be safely and effectively treated with stenting or angioplasty alone, according to a systematic review of the literature published online June 23, 2011, ...
CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...
A 66-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital with left-sided weakness and altered mental status after magnetic resonance ...
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 19: Kauvery Hospital Alwarpet has successfully performed a rare and technically complex neurovascular procedure to prevent a potentially devastating stroke in a ...
Cervical artery dissections are defined by the presence of a mural hematoma in the arterial wall. Most occur in the internal carotid artery more than 2 cm after the bifurcation, although they can also ...