Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film; (Right) Post-angioplasty film.Note the severe proximal basilar artery stenosis which ...

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 ...

The vertebral-basilar system supplies the brain-stem, cerebellum and temporal and occipital lobes 2 ().It begins as the vertebral artery, which is the first branch of the subclavian artery.

Warfarin reduced the risk of the primary end point among patients with basilar artery stenosis, ... Cochrane review identified 313 endovascular interventions for vertebral artery stenosis, ...

As a result, almost all the patients with intracranial stenosis in the thrombectomy groups of the ATTENTION and BAOCHE trials were treated with angioplasty or stenting of the basilar artery in ...

As well as narrowing blood vessels, plaque can break away and travel in the blood to block a vein or artery elsewhere in the body. ... This gives an image of the vertebral and basilar arteries, ...

Sept. 7 -- SATURDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- In the treatment of patients with symptomatic narrowing (stenosis) of the carotid artery, angioplasty with stenting and endarterectomy (surgical ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck without any symptoms may be linked to problems in learning, memory, thinking and decision-making ...