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 ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Thrombolysis with tenecteplase led to earlier reperfusion and improved functional outcomes at 90 days without any significant safety issues in selected patients with basilar artery ...

A second randomized controlled trial in the space of 3 days has shown benefit of endovascular thrombectomy for the treatment of stroke caused by basilar artery occlusion. The Basilar Artery Occlusion ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...