CEREBROVASCULAR insufficiency due to subclavian-artery occlusion is more frequent, more simply diagnosed and more easily treated than generally recognized. Only recently has attention been focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...