To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet therapies or anticoagulation against antiplatelet therapy in known cases of extracranial vertebral artery ...

In the presence of subclavian steal the brain is deprived of the cephalad vertebral-artery flow (97 ml. per minute) in addition to the blood that is shunted retrogradely into the subclavian bed ...

Patients with vertebrobasilar stenosis are currently being enrolled in two other randomized studies; the Vertebral Artery Stenting Trial (VAST), 8 for stenting of intracranial or extracranial ...

Vertebral-Artery Stenosis Confined to the Orifice ... number of occlusive lesions in several vessels without evidence of brain infarction. Case 4 illustrates the rather satisfactory ...

where doctors discovered the force of his sneeze had sparked a vertebral artery dissection, causing a blockage in his artery and then a stroke at the base of his brain. Ian, who remains in ...

it caused a condition called vertebral artery dissection — which according to the Cleveland Clinic. is a tear in the artery that runs along your spine, supplying blood to your brain. For ...

Vertebral artery dissection is a rare condition that ... which occurs when a clot becomes large enough to block blood flow to your brain. Clots can also break off, travel through your bloodstream ...

Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter tells PEOPLE that a chiropractor shifted May’s neck, tearing her left vertebral artery. The tear blocked blood flow to May’s brain and caused the ...