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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Mechanical extraction of embolic material offers a potential alternative to fibrinolysis, especially for patients in whom fibrinolysis is contraindicated or in whom it has failed. We and others have ...
To the Editor: As interventional neuroradiologists from an institution that participated in the Basilar Artery International Cooperation Study (BASICS) reported by Langezaal and colleagues (May 20 ...
A 68 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of double vision and slurred speech. Shortly afterward, she became quadriplegic and lapsed into a coma. Pontine and Midbrain Infarction: Flair axial MRI ...