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.

However, for 41-year-old Carissa Klundt, it caused a tear in the artery that runs along her spine. A vertebral artery dissection, or VAD, is a tear in one or more tissue layers that make up the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This case report highlights an exceptionally rare congenital anomaly where the left common carotid artery (LCCA) originates from the main pulmonary artery (MPA), a condition documented in only 12 ...

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 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.

KEYWORDS: Non Traumatic True Aneurysm, Posterior Meningeal Artery (PMA), Internal Carotid Artery, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Intracerebellar Hematoma JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Clinical Diagnostics, ...

1 Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China 2 School of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, ...

Introduction Abnormal origins of the right vertebral artery (RVA) are uncommon, occurring at a rate of 0.18% in the general population (1). Right subclavian artery (RSCA) variants are primarily ...

Bow Hunter’s syndrome, also known as rotational vertebral artery syndrome, is a rare but treatable condition that causes neurological symptoms and may cause strokes when a person rotates their head.