Currently, there is no consensus on the most effective medical therapy for posterior circulation ischemia. To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet ...

January 31, 2011 — New guidelines on the management of patients with extracranial carotid and vertebral artery disease (ECVD) were released today by the American College of Cardiology ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

Case 1. C.A. (S.E.H. No. 66–15874), a 49-year-old man, had syncopal episodes for 3 years occurring about once a week during the past year. The attacks were precipitated by driving a bus. Syncope was ...

The network of arteries supplying blood flow to the brain is more likely to be incomplete in people who suffer migraine, a new study by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...