Carotid-cavernous sinus fistulae are rare, but serious, vascular anomalies which may develop following traumatic injury to the skull base. Fractures or the shearing forces of severe head trauma ...

1 According to the current European Society of Cardiology syncope guidelines, reflex syncope can be broadly classified into four groups: vasovagal syncope (VVS), situational syncope, carotid sinus ...

Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of conditions that together increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular problems, including heart attack. The features of metabolic syndrome ...

Arteriovenous malformations between the carotid artery and the cavernous sinus or fistulas are also possible causes ... In the clinical examination, Horner's syndrome was identified. A carotid artery ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

Background Challenging anatomy for carotid artery access can result in a delay to achieve successful recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Our objective was to study emergent direct ...

From 576 RA patients carrying the mutant TT genotype of IL-33 rs3939286 polymorphism had a significantly lower carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) evaluated by carotid ultrasound, compared to the ...

32 Currently, a large-scale multicenter RCT, the Carotid and Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Surgery Study (CMOSS), is underway in China, which may provide further insights into the role of bypass ...

It is important to identify infants of affected women as high-risk infants. Scrutinize the maternal history and, when possible, determine the specific EDS type of the mother or affected family ...

Heterotaxy arises from a failure of the embryo to establish normal left-right asymmetry and is known to affect 3% of infants with congenital heart disease. A recessive mutation causing heterotaxy ...