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 ...

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 ...

Case 1. C.A. (S.E.H. No. 66–15874), a 49-year-old man, had syncopal episodes for 3 years occurring about once a week during the past year. The attacks were precipitated by driving a bus.

A young, healthy American man nearly died after suffering a stroke when an artery ruptured in his neck—caused by a sneeze. According to his doctors, 35-year-old Ian Applegate was sitting in his ...

A YOUNG and healthy dad nearly died after suffering a stroke when an artery ruptured in his neck - caused by a sneeze. Ian Applegate was sitting in his car with his wife Jennifer and their four ...

The safest and most effective treatment for symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis has not yet been proven. Here, we discuss the merits and pitfalls of endovascular treatment for this under ...

The first evaluation for subclavian artery occlusive disease should always be a simple measurement of bilateral brachial artery blood pressures. A significant difference between the two ...