Some patients with basilar artery occlusion strokes could benefit from endovascular therapy (EVT) after all, according to a closer look at the BEST and BASICS trials. Among the pooled target ...

Two randomized trials showing benefits of endovascular thrombectomy in ischemic stroke caused by basilar artery occlusion have now been published. Results of the two Chinese trials — the first to show ...

The benefit of endovascular therapy in the treatment of stroke caused by an occlusion of the basilar artery has finally been confirmed in the ATTENTION randomized trial. The study, conducted in China, ...

LOS ANGELES, CA—Patients with acute strokes caused by basilar-artery occlusions (BAOs) fare much better with the addition of modern endovascular thrombectomy than with medical therapy alone, a ...

Among the most feared and devastating strokes are ones caused by blockages in the brain's critical basilar artery system. They can cause head-to-toe paralysis called "locked-in syndrome. However, a ...

Endovascular therapy, a minimally invasive surgery performed inside the blood vessels, is preferred to alternative approaches for vessel obstructions in life-sustaining areas of the brain, analysis ...

Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) leads to a catastrophic stroke syndrome that...carries a risk between 40-80 percent death and severe disability. My legal team understands that issues of time, standards ...

A recent review article, published in the Lancet, provided a contemporary update of endovascular therapy for stroke patients. The article authors, researchers from Boston University Chobanian & ...

To my knowledge, the first case report on successful recanalization of the basilar artery with intravenous urokinase therapy and full clinical recovery was published in 1981, 1 and since then only 5 ...

Health Ambiguity Linked to Depression in Stroke Survivors A portable device that measures eye movements may help non-specialist physicians diagnose stroke in high-risk patients with acute vertigo or ...

Endovascular therapy, or EVT, – a minimally invasive surgery performed inside the blood vessels – is 2 ½ times more likely than standard medical management to achieve a positive outcome after ...