CURRENT CONCEPTS: Vertebrobasilar Disease

Embolic infarcts can involve one posterior cerebral artery, which most often leads to a hemianopia of the contralateral visual field,1,3,20,23 as in the patient described in Figure 2. The patient described in Figure 2 had occlusion of a vertebral artery causing transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) rela...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 352; no. 25; p. 2618
Main Authors Savitz, Sean I, Caplan, Louis R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Massachusetts Medical Society 23.06.2005
Subjects
Blood vessels
Disease management
Stroke
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Summary:Embolic infarcts can involve one posterior cerebral artery, which most often leads to a hemianopia of the contralateral visual field,1,3,20,23 as in the patient described in Figure 2. The patient described in Figure 2 had occlusion of a vertebral artery causing transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) related to the lower brain stem and followed by an intraarterial embolus to the right posterior cerebral artery, causing an occipital-lobe infarct and a left hemianopia.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMra041544