The prognosis is generally very good for people with vertebral artery dissection, and depends mainly on the size of the stroke. Given the small stroke for your daughter, it’s likely she will ...

Arterial dissections are one of the most common forms of vascular lesion to affect the cervical carotid and vertebral arteries, second only to atherosclerosis. Arterial dissections are often ...

Background: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is an important cause of stroke in the young. VAD can present with a range of imaging findings. We sought to summarize the diagnostic value of various ...

Cite this article Eguchi, K., Tachikawa, Y., Kashima, R. et al. A Case of Vertebral Artery Dissection Associated with Morning Blood Pressure Surge. Hypertens Res 28, 847–851 (2005). https://doi ...

The risk of a heart attack among adults after a clot-caused stroke or a stroke plus a tear in the wall of a neck artery (carotid or vertebral artery dissection) was almost double within the first ...

Heritable connective tissue disorders associated with spontaneous dissection of the internal carotid artery include Ehlers–Danlos syndrome type IV, Marfan syndrome, autosomal dominant polycystic ...

In the CADISS trial, as a result of collaboration between 46 stroke centers, 250 patients with cervical artery dissection (118 carotid, 132 vertebral artery) were randomized to antiplatelet vs ...

Patients who had carotid or vertebral artery dissection without stroke had the same risk of having a heart attack within a year as those in the reference group. Patients with stroke, either with ...

Vertebral artery dissection led to Phillip Hughes suffering 'catastrophic' bleeding on his brain, doctors reveal Vertebral artery dissection has been described as 'incredibly rare' ...

However, for 41-year-old Carissa Klundt, it caused a tear in the artery that runs along her spine. A vertebral artery dissection, or VAD, is a tear in one or more tissue layers that make up the ...

Figure 2. Magnetic resonance angiography of the neck showing right vertebral artery tapering occlusion (arrow), caused by vertebral artery dissection in the distal V2 segment.