According to Dr. Karolina Armonaitė, a neuroscientist from Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, a more precise ...

The brain is one of the body’s most energy-demanding organs, accounting for 2 percent of the body’s weight but consuming 20 ...

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow ...

Intracerebral hemorrhages most commonly involve (A) cerebral lobes, originating from penetrating cortical branches of the anterior, middle, or posterior cerebral arteries; (B) basal ganglia ...

The story the data tells is clear: not all imaging tools are equally equipped to interpret complex stroke cases.” MeVOs refer to occlusions in smaller, yet still crucial, arteries in the brain, such ...

Endovascular treatment (EVT) is beneficial in persons with an acute ischemic stroke caused by a large-vessel occlusion of the internal carotid artery, the M1 segment of the middle cerebral artery ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MDMedically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Arteries are blood vessels in the body that carry blood away from the heart and throughout the body. There are ...

For basilar artery occlusion, recent randomized clinical trials demonstrated not only equipoise but also advantages for EVT under particular circumstances. It remains unclear whether EVT offers an ...

Background: The posterior cerebral artery (PCA) is the terminal branch of the basilar artery. The fetal variant of PCA (fPCA) arises directly from the internal carotid artery. A fPCA can be either ...

Abstract Background and Purpose: Increased Transcranial Doppler flow velocity in the ipsilateral P2-segment of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA-P2: cm/second) is associated with recurrent ...

Head computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a hypodensity in the left temporal and occipital lobes. CT angiography revealed an abrupt cutoff of the left posterior cerebral artery (PCA) at the ...