Autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) is a physiologic and homeostatic process that maintains nearly constant CBF over a range of mean arterial pressures (MAPs). Disease states, including ...

The clinical syndrome produced by a stroke is determined by the artery or arteries that are occluded. Blood is supplied to the brain by two major sets of arteries, the anterior and posterior ...

Among the most feared and devastating strokes are ones caused by blockages in the brain's critical basilar artery system. They can cause head-to-toe paralysis called "locked-in syndrome. However, a ...

THAT premature vascular degeneration leads to coronary occlusion in young adults is recognized. However, there is a great reluctance to accept a similar etiology for the apoplectic development of ...

A 45 year-old man developed the lightning onset of an explosive headache followed by coma. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - Basilar Artery Aneurysm. Cerebral Angiogram, Left vertebral artery injection. (Left ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 25 (ANI): Turns out, aneurysm occurs anywhere throughout the circulatory system, but most commonly develop along the aorta and in blood vessels of the brain. Expansive ...

A 22 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the left side. She had a known history of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome with several episodes of deep venous thromboses in ...