After a few weeks, things deteriorated. Carissa was "blacking out and seeing things." A CT scan revealed a vertebral artery dissection, or VAD, when her husband recommended she go to the ER.

5 The 41-year-old suffered a tear in the inner lining of the vertebral artery Credit: Kennedy News "You do hear a crack anyway when you get an adjustment but I knew something had gone wrong." ...

LAS VEGAS (WKRC) - A woman claimed a chiropractor tore her artery while cracking her neck during a routine visit. According to PEOPLE, 41-year-old Carissa Klundt of Las Vegas claims she was left ...

Proband 2 (JX002-II1), a 31-year-old female, was admitted to the hospital due to abdominal pain. The CTA revealed the presence of the following conditions: TAAA, popliteal artery aneurysm, and left ...

Involvement of the BA may be more significant, as there may be a lack of compensatory flow from either vertebral artery to perfuse distal to the ectatic vessel. 19–21 The BA also perfuses the pontine ...

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 ...

Archive Retrograde Vertebral-Artery Flow Produced by Correction of Subclavian-Steal Syndrome Authors: Robert L. Berger, M.D., James J. Sidd, M.D., and K. Ramaswamy, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations ...

California dad Ian Applegate’s sneeze was so powerful it tore the artery that supplies blood to his brain. He is determined to recover before his wife gives birth to their second child.

The caliber change between the occipital artery, the tortuous radicular anastomotic segment, and the C1 vertebral artery in our patient is more compatible with a persistent occipital knot anastomosis ...

Basilar artery and single vertebral artery presentation, as demonstrated in the present case, account for only 4% of VBD location. A cohort study define VBD as a basilar artery or vertebral artery ...

The arteriogram, shown in Figure 1, demonstrated stenosis of the left subclavian artery 2.5 cm. distal to the aorta and just proximal to the origin of the left vertebral artery.