The daily increasing number of cervical whiplash injuries presents ever-greater requirement for vertebrobasilar diagnostics. A cervical spine injury, which is quite frequent injury, may occur during a fall, or industrial, traffic, sport or war injury. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography with Transcan 3-D EME device and 2 MHz probe was used for the assessment of vertebrobasilar circulation in ...

Continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography and clinical examination were used over a 2-year period to monitor the natural history of subclavian stenoses and occlusions in 67 patients. Thirty-nine presented with subclavian steal and 28 without. We also studied an additional group of 29 patients who had undergone surgery for subclavian steal syndrome and vertebrobasilar transient ischemic attacks. T...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Optimal means for assessing cerebral vasospasm, mainly at the vertebrobasilar system, have not been established. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of multisection CT angiography (MCTA) in the detection and quantification of vertebrobasilar vasospasm (VBS) indicated on transcranial Doppler (TCD) imaging in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). MET...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intracranial atherosclerosis is responsible for a substantial proportion of stroke, and vessel calcifications as seen on native computed tomographic scans could be an estimate of its burden. The presence of vertebrobasilar artery calcifications is associated with risk factors. METHODS This study is a retrospective clinical study on 449 consecutive patients with stroke. ...

Dissecting aneurysms of the vertebrobasilar system are infrequent. Most of the commonly reported cases describe iatrogenic or traumatic aneurysms of the extracranial vertebral artery. Spontaneous dissecting aneurysms of the extracranial vertebral artery are frequently associated with carotid artery lesions; however, such association is poorly documented in the literature. We describe a case of ...

PURPOSE To report our experience using intraarterial thrombolysis in the treatment of vertebrobasilar occlusion. METHODS Twelve patients with 13 angiographically proved thromboses of the vertebrobasilar system underwent local intraarterial thrombolysis with urokinase. Angiographic and clinical outcomes were analyzed with respect to clinical examination at presentation, arterial occlusion patt...

Introduction  Vertebrobasilar insufficiency is defined as transitory ischemia of the vertebrobasilar circulation. Dizziness, vertigo, headaches, vomit, diplopia, blindness, ataxia, imbalance, and weakness in both sides of the body are the most common symptoms. Objective  To review the literature regarding the three available diagnostic testing in patients with dizziness complaints secondary to ...

Audiovestibular symptoms are the first and often the only clinical signs of vertebrobasilar insufficiency. The aim of our investigation was to analyze the results of caloric and electronystagmographic investigation of vascular-vestibular disorders among patients with vertebrobasilar insufficiency. We examined a total of 55 men (mean age, 51.8 +/- 8.2 years)--a primary group of 35 men with prove...

The objective of this study was to assess the safety and feasibility of stenting plus best medical treatment compared with best medical treatment alone in patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic vertebrobasilar artery stenosis of at least 50%. The patient population comprised patients from seven hospitals in the Netherlands from 2008 to 2013. Key inclusion criteria were a vertebrobasilar tran...