Endovascular treatment of vasculitis affecting the intracranial vessels is not yet established. Our experience with successful treatment of complete occlusion of the vertebral artery secondary to GCA ...

A 5F or 6F intermediate catheter was used to access the target vertebral artery. An intracranial microcatheter and neuroguidewire were employed to attempt passage through the occluded segment. If the ...

Background Endovascular recanalization for medically refractory non-acute middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion remains a clinical dilemma, and limited data are available. We report the multicenter ...

Background: Deep tiny flow voids (DTFVs) have recently been identified as a novel form of collateral circulation linked to chronic steno-occlusive atherosclerotic middle cerebral artery (MCA) lesions ...

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and a major cause of death both ...

We report two patients presenting with posterior circulation strokes after documented vertebral artery occlusion, due to a vertebral stump syndrome. Their presentation, the pathophysiology of ...

Stenosis or occlusion ... artery stenosis, no treatment is usually necessary if no symptoms are present. Patients with symptoms, however, need a thorough investigation and represent the small ...

Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Male Wistar rats (n = 66; controls, n = 7) were subjected to 2 hours of middle cerebral artery occlusion and were killed at various times of reperfusion (0.5 to 168 hours) for p53 immunohistochemistry ...