Surgery may save your life during a stroke, ... If you’ve had a stroke or stroke symptoms and an artery is more than 50% blocked, surgery may help you. But not everyone is healthy enough.

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 ...

A 75 year-old woman presented with several attacks of slurred speech and unsteadiness. Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film ...

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 ...

Newer research suggests that it likely is not due to basilar artery spasms, but many people may still use the old term. While scientists have known about this type of migraine since 1961, ...