Thrombectomy using Trevo ProVue Stent Retriever Devices after Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator Thrombolysis for Acute Basilar Artery Occlusion during Vertebral Artery Dissection, Internal ...

Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film; (Right) Post-angioplasty film.Note the severe proximal basilar artery stenosis which ...

All patients had occlusion of the basilar artery confirmed on vascular imaging within 12 hours of stroke onset, and they had severe symptoms at presentation, with an NIHSS score of at least 10.

In post-mortem studies 16–19 it has been found that the right vertebral artery makes a negligible contribution to the basilar artery in 3.1 per cent, and the left in 1.8 per cent of cases.

ATTENTION Trial . In the ATTENTION trial, 340 patients were enrolled up to 12 hours after the estimated time of basilar artery occlusion, with 226 assigned to the thrombectomy group and 114 to the ...

Sources. Tao C, Nogueira RG, Zhu Y, et al. Trial of endovascular treatment of acute basilar-artery occlusion. N Engl J Med. 2022;387:1361-1372.. Jovin TG, Li C, Wu L, et al. Trial of thrombectomy 6 to ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—Patients with acute strokes caused by basilar-artery occlusions (BAOs) fare much better with the addition of modern endovascular thrombectomy than with medical therapy alone, a ...

The posterior cerebral arteries branch off from the basilar artery. The left and right PCAs form the longest sections of the circle of Willis. The internal carotid arteries are located in the ...