Stroke affects nearly 800,000 Americans each year. It is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. A basilar artery stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted. This can ...

The burden of cerebral small vessel disease on brain MRI was assessed, including white matter hyperintensities (WMH), lacunes, cerebral microbleeds (CMB), and enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) for ...

Objective: To provide more data on the outcome of conventional treatment. Methods: Data were analysed on patients from three centres with symptomatic basilar artery occlusion treated conventionally.

Persistent primitive proatlantal intersegmental artery (proatlantal artery I) is an anastomotic channel between the carotid and vertebrobasilar arterial systems. Persistence of this embryonic ...

Bickerstaff, identified the condition and suggested it was caused by some sort of problem with the basilar artery that supplies the brainstem with blood. This theory has since been debunked. However, ...

An MRI of the brain was performed during his inpatient admission, further confirming the CT brain and CT angiogram findings (an example shown in figure 5). A CT angiogram repeated 1 week later showed ...

Aneurysm locations were middle cerebral artery in 86/169 aneurysms (50.9%), anterior communicating artery in 36/ ... Postoperative thromboembolic events were diagnosed by MRI and/or DSA performed in ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangyang No. 1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Xiangyang, China 2 Department of Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China ...

The current evidence on HR-VWI techniques for characterization of brain aneurysms is described in this review. Specific imaging approaches such as aneurysm wall contrast enhancement, MRI-quantitative ...

Dr Bastiaan R Bloem, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. Telephone 0031 71 5262134; fax 0031 71 5248253; email ...

showed ST elevation in the inferior leads, and coronary angiography revealed two giant CAAs in the right coronary artery. Percutaneous coronary intervention was difficult because of risk of CAA ...