Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Cervical artery dissection–related hospitalizations rose more than fourfold in 15 years in the United States, new research shows.

Cervical artery dissection incidence increased from 2005 to 2019, with admissions particularly high in older, Black, and Hispanic populations.

Instagram has made chiropractic neck adjustments more appealing than ever before. But physicians say the maneuver could lead to a stroke.

The upward trend was corroborated in statewide data, with an AAPC of 8.47 percent. Vertebral artery dissection was the sole major predictor of subsequent ischemic stroke risk within 90 days among ...

For patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to cervical artery dissection (CAD), endovascular stenting can improve and ... National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale score, location of ...

There is a five-fold increase in U.S. hospitalizations for cervical artery dissection over a 15-year period. Cervical artery dissection, a tear in an artery that supplies blood to the brain ...

Background The vertebral artery (VA) ostium (VAO) is a common stenosis site ... Three patients continued to have previously diagnosed mid-cervical VA stenosis; one of them had postprocedure dissection ...