ALLMedicine™ Vertebral Artery Dissection Center

Jan 31st, 2023 - Both extrinsic (trauma or violent movement) and intrinsic (structural abnormality, atherosclerosis, or hemodynamic instability) factors may result in arterial dissection. The role of these factors in the origin or progression of dissection remains...

Jan 26th, 2023 - We present a case of an 82-year-old woman presenting with left-sided Horner's syndrome and stroke. She also had a 6-week history of intermittent dizziness, reduced appetite, lethargy, muscle stiffness and weight loss. Examination revealed left tem...

Jan 11th, 2023 - The International Classification of Headache Disorder (ICHD) clearly guides the suspicion of intracranial vertebral artery dissection (ICVAD) in headache patients, but guidelines on how observational or imaging studies should be performed to detec...

Dec 20th, 2022 - The definition of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is broadly accepted as acute sensorineural hearing loss of more than 30 dB over at least three consecutive frequencies in a pure-tone audiogram (PTA). Acute audiovestibular loss is common...

Dec 2nd, 2022 - Intracranial vertebrobasilar dissecting aneurysms (VBDAs) are associated with a greater tendency to rupture and a greater risk of worse outcomes than anterior circulation aneurysms. Spontaneous healing of a VBDA is very rare, and there have been v...

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...

Oct 31st, 2022 - An emergency deparment physician and a radiologist face a recent $75 million medical malpractice verdict linked to their care of a 32-year-old patient after he collapsed during a chiropractic neck treatment in 2015. The patient, Jonathan Buckelew,...

Feb 14th, 2022 - Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Republicans in Congress have asked HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to end COVID's public health emergency designation. (NPR) The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from New York Cit...

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...

Oct 10th, 2018 - Switching breathing tubes may save more lives. A study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute shows that when a laryngeal tube instead of an endotracheal tube is used to open and access the airway in someone who has suffered cardi.