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 ...

Strokes strike young adults under 45 more often than before, often from sneaky causes missed in routine checkups. While older ...

Amid a rise in the use of cosmetic fillers -- commonly injected in the face for anti-aging effects -- Doppler high-frequency ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The driver, a 35-year-old man, had facial fractures, traumatic brain injury, contusions of the brain, a right ankle fracture, an intraventricular hemorrhage, and carotid artery dissections. The ...

In performing open arch replacement, surgeons at our center and others currently prefer to reattach the individual brachiocephalic branches separately, rather than reattaching a single island of ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Cervicocephalic arterial dissection is a vascular condition caused by a cleavage within the arterial wall. While frequently investigated by radiologists, it remains less ...

1 Neurology Department, Libreville University Hospital, Libreville, Gabon. It represents the second most common cause of stroke in young adults, after cardioembolic disease [4]. In most studies, the ...

Abstract: Stenosis and dissection of carotid arteries are life threatening conditions that can lead to stroke, hence requiring early detection. In this work, we propose the use of a wearable ...