The safest and most effective treatment for symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis has not yet been proven. Here, we discuss the merits and pitfalls of endovascular treatment for this under-recognized ...

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 ...

Compared with best medical treatment alone, endovascular therapy (EVT) significantly increases the likelihood of favorable outcome at 90 days for patients with stroke resulting from acute ...

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, ...

Chronic vertebral basilar artery occlusion is one of the most common causes of ischemic stroke, which accounts for roughly 20% of all cases. However, the evidence for the precise clinical effect in ...

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 ...

The vertebrobasilar arterial supply feeds the brain stem (medulla, pons, and midbrain), cerebellum, occipital lobes, posterior temporal lobes, and thalamus (not visible in this view). The arterial ...

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

A 72 year-old man presented with spells of ataxia, vertigo and numbness of the left arm and leg. Intracranial Vertebral Stenosis: Cerebral Angiogram, Right Vertebral / Basilar; AP view. Note the ...