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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vertebral artery stenosis is a major cause of posterior circulation ischemia in the elderly. There is not a clear consensus on the optimal therapeutic approach for symptomatic extracranial vertebral ...

A 46 year-old man presented with attacks of slurred speech, vertigo and double vision. Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; (Right) ...

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 ...