Various conditions can lead to carotid artery neck pain. For instance, some people experience carotidynia, which is inflammation of the blood vessels. Carotid artery dissection can also cause pain ...

Informed consent was obtained from all enrolled patients before DSA and OCT imaging. From June 2017 to June 2021, 133 consecutive patients admitted to our hospital underwent the OCT examination when ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

Background Challenging anatomy for carotid artery access can result in a delay to achieve successful recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to study emergent direct ...

Background Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) may extend into the middle or anterior cerebral artery (ICA-T) or be confined to the intracranial (ICA-I) or extracranial segment (ICA-E).

Objectives: To accurately predict the risk of ischemic stroke, we established a radiomics model of carotid atherosclerotic plaque-based high-resolution vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging (HR-VWMRI ...

Objective: There are only limited epidemiological studies evaluating the association between vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia (VBD) and outcomes. This study was designed to elucidate the outcome and ...

Introduction: Dolichoectasia (DE), a condition marked by dilation and tortuosity of intracranial ... DE was primarily assessed as a composite assessment based on artery arterial diameter cutoffs by ...

Balloon angiography can be used as an alternative to minimally invasive procedures or more invasive ones, like a coronary artery bypass. The pre-operative evaluation can also help the healthcare ...

Confusion between approved injectable epinephrine products and unapproved nasal solutions has prompted a warning to healthcare providers and a recall by one manufacturer, according to a January ...