Surgery for Cerebrovascular Disease

Challenges for Cerebrovascular Disease

ACUTE STROKE CARE: HOW CAN MODERN STROKE CARE BE MADE AVAILABLE TO MORE PATIENTS? Much progress has been made in acute stroke management during the last 20 years. Today we can offer organized stroke unit care in many regions in Europe and some in the United States and Canada; we have an approved acute medical treatment for ischemic stroke, i.v. rtPA. Clot retrieval devices are approved and avai...

Cerebrovascular disease and functional outcome after coronary artery bypass surgery.

A series of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery was studied prospectively to see if angiographic evidence of cerebrovascular disease proved predictive of the incidence of neuropsychological deficit 8 days or 8 weeks after surgery. In 47 patients, intravenous digital subtraction angiography was carried out preoperatively to assess the presence and severity of atheromatous changes ...

Open Access Textbook of General Surgery Extracranial Cerebrovascular Disease

· Posterior Circulation Two vertebral arteries originate from the first part of the subclavian arteries. These join intra-cranially to form the basilar artery and supply the posterior cerebral circulation. This is the main blood supply to the brain stem, cerebellum and posterior cerebrum. · Anterior Circulation Both internal carotid arteries arise from the carotid bifurcation in the neck. Intra...

Cerebrovascular surgery update.

Cerebrovascular disease.

On December 19, 1952, Dr C. Miller Fisher, in a lecture to the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society, “Concerning Strokes,” noted “. . . I was under the impression that the subject of cerebrovascular disease had already been well cut and dried by the pioneers of Neuropathology. . . . It became apparent that this was far from true, for many aspects of the subject had not yet been investigated and ...