Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

The posterior cerebral arteries branch off from the basilar artery. The left and right PCAs form the longest sections of the ...

When surgical intervention is needed, carotid endarterectomy involves removing plaque from the artery, while carotid stenting ...

Atherosclerotic carotid artery ... with Acute Right-Sided Paresis and Language Disturbance. Magnetic resonance angiography reveals a high-grade symptomatic carotid stenosis on the left (arrow ...

Carotid artery variants are extremely uncommon and are often incidental. We present a case where imaging revealed rare congenital absence of right internal carotid with distal segments arising from ...

The most common cause of carotid artery narrowing is a buildup of plaque in the arteries due to multiple risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, family history and ...

1 Yuan reviewed 1,286 cases of aberrant VA origins and found that most involve a single LVA (84.7%) and originate from the aortic arch (97.4%) between the left carotid artery (LCA) and LSA (81.9%).

A 53-year-old healthy man with history of left internal carotid artery dissection in 2006 presented with right-sided facial pain with paraesthesia associated with taste and speech disturbances. A CT ...

The original aortic arch angiography performed via a femoral approach identified the common trunk origin of great vessels and the nearly right angle origin of the left common carotid artery (Figure 1) ...

The 'XB' version of the Simmons 2 was preferred for the left, and the standard version for the right carotid artery. This is because the stiffer XB catheter can be difficult to pull into the ...

gmail.com Vertebral artery origin anomalies are typically incidental findings during angiography or post mortem examination. We present two cases of vertebral origin from the right common carotid ...