The basilar artery is located at the base of the brain, where the two vertebral arteries come together. It serves as the main blood supply to the back of the brain, where the occipital lobes, ...

These arteries unite at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery, and in a healthy person they supply up to 20% of the brain’s blood. Normally, the blood in the vertebral arteries flows ...

The findings suggest that the benefits of endovascular thrombectomy in patients with acute basilar artery occlusion were sustained at long-term follow-up. A more favorable mRS score distribution in ...

Migraine with brainstem aura, previously called basilar migraine, is a rare type of migraine that causes aura symptoms, like vertigo, slurred speech, and tinnitus, without motor weakness. Migraine ...

Basilar artery occlusion is a rare and severe condition. The effectiveness of endovascular thrombectomy in patients with basilar artery occlusion was unclear until recently, because these patients ...

But there was. When an attending radiologist reviewed the scans some three hours later, that doctor observed a basilar artery occlusion. A thrombectomy was performed to remove the clot.

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 ...

The term proatlantal intersegmental artery was first used by Padget after a detailed discussion of the discrepancies of the nomenclature in the embryonic arteries. 2, 3 These anatomic embryological ...

Blood is always red, and veins look blue or green because the skin filters light wavelengths differently.

The two new trials involved patients with basilar artery occlusion and a moderate to severe deficit, defined as a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score ≥ 10 — although the ...

For BAOCHE, Jovin and colleagues randomized 217 basilar artery stroke patients (median age 65 years; 27% women) to thrombectomy plus medical therapy or medical therapy alone at a median of 11 hours ...