Tenecteplase improved functional outcomes without added safety risk in selected basilar artery occlusion stroke treated up to 24 hours after onset in the TRACE-5 trial.

A new trial suggests the optimal approach for basilar artery occlusion stroke may vary depending on whether the blockage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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MAYWOOD, Il. - Among the most feared and devastating strokes are ones caused by blockages in the brain's critical basilar artery system. When not fatal, basilar artery strokes can cause devastating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Josh Hader’s neck was bothering him – again. He’d been feeling the discomfort for a couple weeks and recently thought some light stretching could provide relief. “I went to stretch it,” the ...