The pathogenesis of spontaneous cervical artery dissection remains unclear, and no established predictors of recurrence exist. Our goal was to investigate the potential association between cervical ...

A patient in their 70s presented with right facial droop and drooling and was found to have critical left carotid stenosis with filling defect in the cavernous segment of the left internal carotid ...

Background Iatrogenic catheter induced coronary artery dissection is a rare but life threatening complication. The incidence has been reported to be 0.1%. Objective To estimate the incidence, ...

Methods: The case of a patient, affected by a bilateral infarction limited to a portion of the anterior cerebral artery territory is reported. The patient's ability to walk was formally assessed by ...

Hematoxylin and eosin staining and Verhoeff’s Van Gieson staining Carotid artery tissue specimens from normal animals and carotid artery dissection model animals were collected. Upon fixation with 4% ...

Dr Bastiaan R Bloem, Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. Telephone 0031 71 5262134; fax 0031 71 5248253; email ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) affects women in over 90% of cases, resulting in an acute coronary syndrome at an average age of 45 to 52 years, that is, ≈20 to 30 years younger than for ...

Revascularization therapy for symptomatic vertebrobasilar insufficiency should be considered in patients with bilateral ... artery may offer the best option for re-establishment of adequate ...

The arterial imaging and diagnosis of IAD was based on combined imaging findings of CT angiography, transfemoral cerebral angiography, or high resolution-magnetic ... The patient presented with ...

Introduction Interarm systolic BP differential is a classic sign of acute aortic dissection (AAD). All previous studies looking at the association ... participants were adults >18 years old with a ...

Virtually all regional acute myocardial infarcts are caused by thrombosis developing on a culprit coronary atherosclerotic plaque. The very rare exceptions to this are spontaneous coronary artery ...

International scientists, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near ...