The V4 segment is the intracranial vessel that joins the contralateral vertebral artery to form the basilar artery. This segment is infrequently affected by atherosclerosis, but is vulnerable to ...

Objective To report our data and provide a summarized review of literature using flow diverter stents for the treatment of intracranial vertebral artery dissecting pseudoaneurysms. Methods We ...

Patients who underwent endovascular treatment of fusiform intracranial vertebral artery aneurysms using reconstructive techniques were included in the analysis. Clinical presentation, size, ...

This case shows prominent atherosclerosis mainly in the internal carotid artery, vertebral artery, basilar artery, left middle cerebral artery, and posterior cerebral artery. Macrophages(mean±SD), % 0 ...

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 ...

Background: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD ... Subarachnoid hemorrhage was seen only with intracranial dissections (57% vs. 0%, P=0.003). Fewer than half of the patients had obvious trauma ...

To maintain posterior cerebral perfusion, VA artery transposition is indicated ... Yuan SM. Aberrant origin of vertebral artery and its clinical implications. Braz J Cardiovasc Surg. 2016;31:52-59. 2.

Intracranial dissections can complicate with subarachnoid ... In the coming years, it will be crucial for us to define appropriate therapy for traumatic vertebral artery dissections: which patients ...

did not allow catheterisation of the intracranial vessels through conventional access, and based on the consistent time lapse from onset of symptoms and deterioration of the clinical condition, a ...

In 21 cases at least 1 extracranial cerebral vessel was ... as described above, and the vertebral arteries were visualized by retrograde brachial-artery catheterization according to the Seldinger ...

CT head excluded haemorrhage, and CT angiogram revealed a distal vertebral artery dissection with a filling defect immediately proximal to the intracranial extension of the artery consistent with ...