Figure 4. Digital subtraction angiography with early and late phase demonstrating (A) left subclavian artery occlusion with (B) retrograde vertebral filling of proximal subclavian artery.

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.

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She was diagnosed with a spontaneous coronary artery dissection on a coronary angiogram and a right vertebral artery dissection on CT scan. Subsequent extension of the coronary dissection 4 days later ...

Neurological observation disclosed Babinski-Nageotte syndrome. CT scan revealed left vertebral artery (VA) signs of dissection at its third segment (VA3), occlusion of its ipsilateral fourth segment ...

Asensio, J.A., et al. (2020) A systematic Review of Penetrating Extracranial Vertebral Artery Injuries. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 71, 2161-2169.

Vertebral artery injury is a low-frequency but high-mortality injury. We aim to report evidence of delayed onset of vascular symptoms following penetrating trauma in the neck. Materials and Methods: A ...

If your doctor suspects vertebrobasilar insufficiency, he or she will likely order a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and a standard (x-ray) angiography to study the vertebral and basilar arteries ...

Introduction Spontaneous vertebral artery dissection (sVAD) occurs via a non-traumatic tearing of the arterial wall and is the second leading cause of stroke in young and middle-aged adults (Schievink ...

Basilar-artery occlusion, which accounts for approximately 10% of all ischemic strokes caused by intracranial proximal large-vessel occlusion, is associated with high morbidity and mortality. 1,2 ...

Even if vertebral artery stenosis causes cerebral ischemia, CT and MRI do not show ischemic lesions due to the compensation of collateral circulation. So far, the indication of vertebral artery ...

A duplex ultrasound of the vertebral arteries showed luminal narrowing with elevated flow velocities of >300 cm/s (normal <75) and longitudinal, hypoechogenic vessel wall thickening. Axial imaging ...