Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; (Right) Lateral view.Note the severe stenosis (>90%) of the mid-basilar artery. AICA = anterior ...

Narrowing or blockage of the basilar artery may occur due to atherosclerosis or an embolus, such as a blood clot or fatty deposit. In atherosclerosis, fatty deposits called plaques collect in the ...

There have been reports of strokes after the use of the subclavian artery in pulmonosystemic (Blalock) anastomosis, 14 as well as deaths due to basilar-artery insufficiency that followed the use ...

Warfarin reduced the risk of the primary end point among patients with basilar artery stenosis, ... Cochrane review identified 313 endovascular interventions for vertebral artery stenosis, ...

As a result, almost all the patients with intracranial stenosis in the thrombectomy groups of the ATTENTION and BAOCHE trials were treated with angioplasty or stenting of the basilar artery in ...

The most frequent arterial sites of emboli are the intracranial vertebral arteries, which usually lead to cerebellar infarction, and the distal basilar artery, which leads to infarcts in the upper ...

Migraine with brainstem aura or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraines) are headaches that start in the lower part of the brain, called the brainstem.They cause symptoms such as dizziness ...

Doctors used to call these basilar-type migraines because they thought narrowing or spasming of the basilar artery in your brain caused them. But scientists now know it’s nerves, not vessels ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck without any symptoms may be linked to problems in learning, memory, thinking and decision-making ...

Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film; (Right) Post-angioplasty film.Note the severe proximal basilar artery stenosis which ...