Basilar invagination is when the top of your spine gets pushed into the base of your skull. It leads to pinching or pressure on the brain stem, which is a bundle of nerves connecting the brain to ...

A basilar artery stroke is a stroke affecting the back of the brain. It can occur when the basilar artery, which provides blood to the posterior areas of the brain, becomes blocked or ruptured.

The arterial supply consists of the extracranial and intracranial vertebral arteries, which unite to form the basilar artery, which runs midline along the ventral surface of the brain stem ...

We randomly assigned patients within 6 hours after the estimated time of onset of a stroke due to basilar-artery occlusion, in a 1:1 ratio, to receive endovascular therapy or standard medical care.

Migraine with brainstem aura or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraines) are headaches that start in the lower part of the brain, called the brainstem. They cause symptoms such as dizziness ...

Migraine with brainstem aura, previously called basilar migraine, is a rare type of migraine that causes aura symptoms, like vertigo, slurred speech, and tinnitus, without motor weakness.

“Basilar occlusion patients do worse than all other kinds of stroke,” Tudor G. Jovin, MD (Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ), told TCTMD, adding that it accounts for about one in 10 cases of ...

This type of break is known as a basilar skull fracture. The bruise might appear behind one or both ears. Basilar skull fractures can lead to permanent brain injury, meningitis, or other ...

A 75 year-old woman presented with several attacks of slurred speech and unsteadiness. Basilar Artery Stenosis: Cerebral angiogram of the left vertebral / basilar artery; (Left) AP view; Baseline film ...

Vertebral Basilar Angiogram. (Left) lateral view; (Right) AP view. This study was performed by injecting contrast into the right vertebra artery, which is well opacified. There is also some retrograde ...

Thomas died nearly two weeks after suffering bleeding from his basilar artery, which led to a severe stroke. His wife Beckie Thomas told the International Gymnast Media: "Yesterday I lost my ...