ALLMedicine™ Vertebral Artery Dissection Center

May 14th, 2022 - Pediatric vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm is a subtype of vertebral artery dissection that can be challenging to diagnose and may be associated with stroke recurrence. This study examines the presenting features, clinical outcomes, and recurr...

Apr 23rd, 2022 - Management of intracranial artery dissection (IAD) remains elusive in medical practice. Intracranially, vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is more commonly encountered than internal carotid artery dissection (ICAD). Deconstructive (EVT-d) and recon...

Mar 2nd, 2022 - A 21-year-old patient presented with sudden-onset headache, visual disturbance and left hand incoordination. She was diagnosed with a left vertebral artery dissection of the V3 segment resulting in multiple cerebellar and cerebral infarcts. There ...

Jan 25th, 2022 - A 45-year-old woman presented 3 days after symptom resolution from a COVID-19 infection with a left vertebral artery dissection with no known preceding trauma or underlying disposition. She subsequently suffered a left lateral medullary stroke 15 ...

Dec 30th, 2021 - The best endovascular therapy revascularization strategies for acute ischemic stroke caused by vertebral artery dissection (VAD) are unclear. We describes a case of basilar artery (BA) occlusion caused by extracranial VAD, in which we used a stent...

Feb 15th, 2018 - After lumbar pain, neck pain is the most common cause of patients needing chiropractic care; the second most common cause of spinal manipulation use (1). Manipulation and mobilization are commonly used by chiropractors, osteopaths and manipulative...

Jan 29th, 2020 - At the beginning of 2020, I would like to make sure you didn't miss the top three "must-read" emergency medicine articles of the past year. They were practice-changing, reminding or teaching us about critically important, potentially life-saving c...

Jan 29th, 2020 - At the beginning of 2020, I would like to make sure you didn't miss the top three "must-read" emergency medicine articles of the past year. They were practice-changing, reminding or teaching us about critically important, potentially life-saving c...

Jul 5th, 2018 - Knowledge of the potential dangers of mixed martial arts is valuable for Department of Defense (DoD) health care providers as the military continues to implement combatives training into regular military instruction. This case study presents an ac.

Mar 9th, 2017 - Leaning back over the sink to have a shampoo in the hair salon can exert pressure on the neck, which in rare cases can lead to a tear in the vertebral artery and a blood clot that interferes with blood flow -- a phenomenon known as "beauty parlor ...

Jan 10th, 2017 - A recent opinion piece in MedPage Today by an internist about poor communications between emergency physicians (EPs) and primary care physicians (PCPs) was subtitled “We’ve gotten better going from office to ER, but not the other way,” and complai.