Ignoring 'this symptom' could lead to a stroke! Warning signals from carotid artery dissection. Stroke, a medical emergency in which brain function is damaged due to blockage or rupture of a cerebral ...
The number of head CT scans used during ER visits increased from 7.8 million in 2007 to 16 million between 2007 and 2022, but ...
Some common habits can damage the brain silently. Neurologist Dr. Bing warns against three common habits that can harm your brain. Using massage guns on the neck risks stroke due to damage to vital ...
Strokes strike young adults under 45 more often than before, often from sneaky causes missed in routine checkups. While older ...
An international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has found that for people with severe carotid artery narrowing who haven't experienced recent stroke symptoms, a minimally invasive procedure ...
Improvements in medical therapy, carotid-artery stenting, and carotid endarterectomy call into question the preferred management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Whether adding revascularization to ...
Most carotid-artery stenting or endarterectomy is done for asymptomatic cases. The large CREST-2 randomized trial now shows that endarterectomy holds no stroke and mortality benefit over intensive ...
A man in the 40s presented with acute vertigo and occipital headache. He was diagnosed with right posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) dissection, which resulted in right cerebellar and lateral ...
In November, The Lancet published an international expert consensus review, "Contemporary, non-invasive imaging diagnosis of ...
Angiogenesis inhibitors showed no increased risk of arterial dissections or aneurysms in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. The study involved 34,733 patients, with 195 cases matched to 1950 ...
Adding stenting to intensive medical therapy significantly improves outcomes among patients with asymptomatic high-grade carotid stenosis compared with drug treatment alone, a bar not met by carotid ...
A Missouri mother has revealed how her life was turned upside down after an outing at an indoor climbing gym and a subsequent chiropractic visit left her with a torn neck artery that led to five ...
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