Introduction Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and only a few cases of dissection have been reported. [1–3] Sudden head rotation in swinging a ...

Shoko M. Yamada, MD; Yoshiaki Goto, MD; Mineko Murakami, MD; Katsumi Hoya, MD; Akira Matsuno, MD Disclosures Clin J Sport Med. 2014;24 (2):155-157.

Vertebral artery stump syndrome is a rare but treatable cause of recurrent posterior strokes, 1 – 3 with key mechanisms including stagnant blood flow leading to thrombus formation, propagation of ...

The left vertebral artery and the LIMA originate from the left subclavian artery and the presence of the subclavian artery stenosis may cause insufficient, even retrograde blood flow in these vessels, ...

Clinical data standards aim to identify, define, and standardize data elements relevant to clinical topics in cardiovascular medicine, with the primary goal of assisting data collection and use by ...

A 22 year old woman with recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus presented with subacute progressive areflexic paraparesis, electrophysiologically identified as a pure axonal polyradiculopathy ...

Background and objective Inflammation and endothelial dysfunction have been implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic vascular disease. Brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) is a ...