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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The surgical management of atlantoaxial instability remains one of the most challenging and delicate procedures in spinal surgery. Instability between the atlas (C1) and axis (C2) is often associated ...

Vertebral Basilar Angiogram. (Left) lateral view; (Right) AP view. This study was performed by injecting contrast into the right vertebra artery, which is well opacified. There is also some retrograde ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with cervical spine trauma who had a vertebral artery injury had risk-adjusted increased odds of ...

There are several risk factors for arterial dissection, including history of trauma to cervical spine, history of migraine-type headache, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cardiac diseases, vascular ...

Dr. Keith Roach writes a medical question-and-answer column weekdays. Dear Dr. Roach: Our 44-year-old daughter had an event called VAD, vertebral artery dissection — a tear in an inner artery — which ...