Cervical stenosis is the narrowing of the vertebral canal in the neck. It is a common cause of neck pain and is more common in elderly patients. Up to 26% percent of people over the age of 64 may have ...

Currently, there is no consensus on the most effective medical therapy for posterior circulation ischemia. To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet ...

Extracranial vertebral artery stenosis can be safely and effectively treated with stenting or angioplasty alone, according to a systematic review of the literature published online June 23, 2011, ...

Intracranial Vertebral Stenosis: Cerebral Angiogram, Vertebral - Basilar; (Left) AP view; (Right) Lateral view. Note the high grade stenosis of the distal left vertebral artery, which was the cause of ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

THE patient with signs and symptoms of cerebro-vascular insufficiency presents specific problems relating to diagnosis and treatment. Realizing that widely divergent opinions exist regarding the ...

Besides demonstrating safety and feasibility, self-expanding stents with embolic protection devices reduced thromboembolic events among patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic vertebral artery ...

BARCELONA ― Stenting of the vertebral artery ― particularly for extracranial stenosis ― can be performed with low perioperative risk and appears to be associated with a reduced recurrent stroke risk, ...