Objective: To define predictors of recanalisation and clinical outcome of patients with acute basilar artery occlusions treated with local intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT). Methods: Vascular risk ...

The basilar artery (BA) arises from the convergence of intracranial vertebral arteries in close proximity to the medulla oblongata and pons. As the largest artery in the posterior circulation, BA is ...

A middle aged patient presented with acute ischemic stroke due to basilar artery occlusion. The patient clinically deteriorated despite intravenous thrombolysis and was referred for mechanical ...

Methods In total, 134 patients who underwent magnetic resonance imaging for unilateral idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss at a tertiary referral hospital between January 2014 and December ...

The use of MRI is not required before basilar artery thrombectomy. However, this imaging modality remains helpful in the evaluation of these patients, given the greater sensitivity of the modality for ...

Occlusion (3 studies, 833 carotid arteries): An estimated 606 patients would have a DUS result indicating carotid artery occlusion; of these, 36 (6%) would be incorrectly classified. 394 people with a ...

Univariate Analyses for Basilar Artery Plaque and Vulnerable Plaque Univariate analyses found that older adults, patients with hypertension, and those with lower eGFR increased the risk for BA plaque ...

Keywords: basilar artery occlusion, neural markers, MRI, mechanical thrombectomy, prognosis Citation: Liu C, Song J-X, Guo Z-B, Chen L-M, Zhao C-H, Zi W-J and Yang Q-W (2021) Prognostic Structural ...

"Basilar artery occlusion is the 'orphan' of the large vessel occlusions," Raul Gomes Nogueira, MD, PhD, said here at a late-breaking abstract session at the 2020 International Stroke Conference ...