Approximately 20% of ischemic strokes involve the posterior circulation, primarily supplied by the vertebrobasilar system.

A 75 year-old woman presented with several attacks of slurred speech and unsteadiness. Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film ...

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 ...

Two randomized trials showing benefits of endovascular thrombectomy in ischemic stroke caused by basilar artery occlusion have now been published. Results of the two Chinese trials — the first to show ...

Intracranial Vertebral Stenosis: Cerebral Angiogram, Vertebral - Basilar; (Left) AP view; (Right) Lateral view. Note the high grade stenosis of the distal left vertebral artery, which was the cause of ...

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 ...