A 42 year-old man developed right neck pain followed by a left hemiparesis. Carotid Artery Dissection: (Left) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the carotid bifurcation; (Middle) Right Internal ...

A carotid dissection is a tear in one of your carotid arteries. These are a set of two arteries at the sides of your neck that supply blood to your brain. A dissection is a tear of the inner layer of ...

Ignoring 'this symptom' could lead to a stroke! Warning signals from carotid artery dissection. Stroke, a medical emergency in which brain function is damaged due to blockage or rupture of a cerebral ...

The case is presented of carotid artery dissection causing Horner’s syndrome in a 25 year old woman after treadmill running. She presented with characteristic eye signs and mild pain. Early diagnosis ...

Stroke, an emergency disease in which blood vessels in the brain become clogged or burst and brain function is impaired, is generally known to occur in the elderly. However, there are cases of stroke ...

Arterial dissections involving arteries in the neck and head are being identified increasingly readily because of growing awareness of their clinical features, along with advances in imaging ...

An Indiana mother who mysteriously died on her flight home from the Dominican Republic suffered a carotid artery tear, her family has revealed. Stefanie Smith, 41, was killed in a 'truly a tragic ...

A 61-year-old right-handed man presented with a two-day history of a new headache that had developed gradually several hours after he dived into a lake. The headache, which encompassed the entire left ...

A recent incident involving an American yoga and fitness model shows that even young, healthy, active people can suffer strokes, challenging the conventional wisdom that strokes are exclusively caused ...

A 47 year-old man developed the abrupt onset of a left hemiparesis. Carotid Artery Dissection: (Left) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the carotid bifurcation; (Middle) Right Carotid Angiogram ...