In the absence of proximal atherosclerotic disease, unilateral vertebral artery stenosis or occlusion is well tolerated. Vertebral artery stenting procedures have high technical success rates ...

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 si ...

WITH advances in reconstructive vascular surgery and the increase in life expectancy accurate angiographic demonstration of cerebrovascular occlusive disease has become increasingly important. Extr ...

This is a retrospective study based on data obtained from Lishui Hospital of Zhejiang University. We identified patients who underwent treatment for initial segment occlusion of the vertebral basilar ...

Full search strategy, selection, and exclusion criteria are described in the accompanying manuscript on clinical characteristics of VAD. To summarize, we searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for English ...

Cerebellar and Posterior Cerebral Artery Infarctions: Diffusion-weighted MRI scans.Note the acute infarctions in the right cerebellum and left occipital/temporal lobe. This picture is consistent with ...

Basilar Occlusion: Pre-tPA: Cerebral angiogram, right vertebral injection; (Left) AP view; (Right) Lateral view.Note the abrupt cutoff of the proximal basilar artery, with no visible branches off the ...

A computed tomography angiography (CTA), however, shows occlusion of the left vertebral artery from a possible dissection. The basilar artery is clear on imaging. Laboratory tests are unremarkable.

Using dynamic duplex ultrasonography, investigators of this prospective study found 6% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis developed positional vertebral artery occlusion associated with ...

You could have bow hunter’s syndrome, or rotational vertebral artery occlusion, as it’s officially known. It takes its name from the way a hunter turns their head to aim a bow and arrow.