For symptomatic patients with severe intracranial stenosis, aggressive medical management alone reduces the risk of periprocedural stroke and death compared with stenting, and at midterm follow-up ...

Endovascular coiling to treat ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms offers high long-term occlusion rates in elderly patients, according to a meta-analysis published in the July 2013 issue of ...

This article deconstructs the IIH guidelines, contrasting medical management (acetazolamide, topiramate) with the practical ...

An aneurysm is a focal dilatation of an arterial blood vessel. Luminal forces, such as high blood flow, shear stress and turbulence, are implicated in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysms, and ...

About 6.8 million Americans have an unruptured brain aneurysm,or roughly 1 in 50 people, according to Brain Aneurysm Foundation data. Many show no symptoms or warning signs until the aneurysm ruptures ...

Spryte Medical, a pioneer in intravascular neuro imaging, announced it has received Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate the ...

"There’s a clear need for prospective studies that are designed to carefully evaluate the impact of intracranial and extracranial disease burden and clinicopathologic patient characteristics on ...

Cranial osteopathy is an alternative treatment that involves gently manipulating the bones and connective tissues of the brain and cranium. These movements create a balanced symmetry, which leads to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. This article is more than 10 years old. In recent years stenting for ...

To provide a means for comparing strategies for cytokine gene therapy against intracranial (i.c.) tumors, we generated rat gliosarcoma 9L cells transfected with interleukin-4 (9L-IL4), interleukin-12 ...