A basilar artery stroke is a stroke that affects an artery located at the back of the brain. Learn more about the symptoms and treatment options here.

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 ...

The basilar artery is located at the base of the brain, where the two vertebral arteries come together. It serves as the main blood supply to the back of the brain, where the occipital lobes ...

The location of the basilar-artery occlusion was adjudicated by a core laboratory. Images were lost for 3 patients in the thrombectomy group and for 2 in the control group.

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Basilar Artery Aneurysm. Axial CT scans without contrast. Note the bright signal predominantly located around the midbrain and inferior occipital lobes, which signifies blood ...

The headache pain of a basilar migraine often starts on one side of the head and then gradually spreads and gets stronger. This type of migraine can last anywhere from 4 to 72 hours. And it takes ...

A second randomized controlled trial in the space of 3 days has shown benefit of endovascular thrombectomy for the treatment of stroke caused by basilar artery occlusion. The Basilar Artery ...

Figure 1. Anatomy of the vertebral artery. C2 represents the second cervical vertebrae, C6 is the sixth cervical vertebrae. V1, V2, V3 and V4 are the anatomic segments of the vertebral artery.

Among the most feared and devastating strokes are ones caused by blockages in the brain's critical basilar artery system. They can cause head-to-toe paralysis called "locked-in syndrome. However ...

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Basilar Artery Aneurysm - Case 1. A 45 year-old man developed the lightning onset of an explosive headache followed by coma. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ... Aneurysms are usually ...