Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were recorded during surgery as a monitor of brainstem function in three patients undergoing posterior fossa surgery for clipping of basilar aneurysms. In two patients, ligation of the basilar artery, and of a vertebral artery, was associated with deterioration in BAEP and resulted in postoperative brainstem dysfunction. In the third patient, postoper...

i) a case of bilateral stenosis of the internal carotid artery with aneurysm of basilar trunk is reported. 2) via femoral angiography confirmed the diagnosis which is strongly recommended in diagnosing such cases. 3) no surgica l treatment is considered. 4) no similar case has been reported in literature.

V. Kostanian S.C. Cramer SUMMARY: A patient with acute top of the basilar syndrome clinically was found to have only a small basilar artery filling defect but complete occlusion of the artery of Percheron. Intra-arterial thrombolysis resulted in favorable neurologic outcome. To our knowledge, this is the only case of angiographically proved and treated artery of Percheron occlusion. The value o...

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) often induces a long-term narrowing of the cerebral artery called cerebral vasospasm. Myosin light chain (MLC) in the spastic basilar artery was reported previously to be phosphorylated by Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent MLC kinase. Because Rho-kinase, which is activated by the small GTPase Rho, phosphorylates not only MLC but also myosin phosphatase at its myosin-bind...

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