Vertebral artery dissection caused by swinging a golf ... C, cervical; LM-D, low–molecular weight dextran; M, male; MRA, MR angiography; PICA, posterior inferior cerebellar artery.

“Heartbroken after seeing a young patient with no medical history end up with a BIFFL GRADE II dissection of the vertebral artery and subsequent acute PICA infarct immediately after a neck ...

emory.edu Background Ruptured aneurysms of the intracranial vertebral artery (VA) or posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are challenging to treat as they are often dissecting aneurysms ...

uic.edu Purpose Although the anatomic course of the posterior interior cerebellar artery (PICA ... Results Five cases were the typical bihemispheric PICA pattern, three were bihemispheric with distal ...

To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet therapies or anticoagulation against antiplatelet therapy in known cases of extracranial vertebral artery ...

In 2024, researchers in Italy reported finding micronanoplastics in plaque from some people without symptoms who underwent surgery to remove carotid artery plaque. Symptoms caused by carotid ...

He hopes to expand this research beyond the carotid artery and also run some animal experiments to test for cause and effect. "We just don't know," Clark said. "Almost all of what we know about ...

Therefore, on the basis of adequate dual antiplatelet medications, a stent reconstruction of the CVAD of the right vertebral artery was successfully performed under general anesthesia. Attentively, ...