for the treatment of ruptured and unruptured wide-necked aneurysms of the anterior communicating artery (ACA) and middle cerebral artery (MCA), the internal carotid artery (ICA), and basilar artery ...

Objective Recent publications have described adverse outcomes associated with the PED for vertebral and/or basilar artery pathology. We assessed our results in the treatment of this challenging subset ...

About one in 50 people in the U.S. have an unruptured brain aneurysm. Experts say these “ticking time bombs” can rupture if they aren’t treated. Now, doctors are using a novel approach to ...

Migraine with brainstem aura, or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraine or basilar-type migraine) is a subtype of migraine with aura characterized by pain in the back of the head on both sides. It ...

Objective: To provide more data on the outcome of conventional treatment. Methods: Data were analysed on patients from three centres with symptomatic basilar artery occlusion treated conventionally.

Persistence of this embryonic anastomosis is very rare. The "top of the basilar" syndrome is usually due to occlusion of thalamoperforating arteries by emboli that rise from the vertebrobasilar ...

Adequate venous drainage of brain parenchyma is essential to maintain cerebral perfusion and clearance of cerebrospinal fluid. The cortical vein opacification score (COVES) is a radiographic metric ...

As immediate postoperative imaging is not standard practice in many centres, this is not always reported. While in most cases, SAH is promptly diagnosed and the culprit aneurysm detected and treated, ...