Strokes among young people are on the rise. Classic risk factors, such as high blood pressure and cholesterol, play a role, ...

Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is a rare but catastrophic stroke associated with elevated morbidity and mortality rates. 1 The clinical manifestations of BAO can vary widely, ranging from mild and ...

Objective: To define predictors of recanalisation and clinical outcome of patients with acute basilar artery occlusions treated with local intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT). Methods: Vascular risk ...

Summary The posterior communicating artery (PCOM) is a small artery in the brain that connects the internal carotid and the posterior cerebral arteries. Its main purpose is to provide an alternative ...

Introduction Acute basilar artery occlusion (BAO) can cause posterior circulation stroke. There are two predominant therapies for BAO: standard medical treatment (SMT) and SMT plus endovascular ...

Objectives: The diameters of the vertebral arteries (VAs) are very often unequal. Therefore, this study investigated if unequal VA flow contributes to the development of basilar artery (BA) curvature ...

An embolic stroke is a type of ischemic stroke that occurs when an embolus (a blood clot that breaks off from a larger blood clot) travels from elsewhere in the body to block an artery in the brain.

However, our patient’s MRI revealed a saccular aneurysm in the basilar trunk with atheromatous calcifications of the carotid bifurcations. Some authors suggest that the existence of vertebral artery ...

The two new trials involved patients with basilar artery occlusion and a moderate to severe deficit, defined as a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score ≥ 10 — although the ...

Characteristics of symptomatic basilar artery stenosis using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging in ischemic stroke patients. J Atheroscler Thromb. (2021) 28:1063–70. doi: 10.5551/jat.58214 ...