Background: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is an important cause of stroke in the young. It can present nonspecifically and may be misdiagnosed with adverse consequences. We assessed the frequency ...

A 25-year-old's casual tennis game led to a vertebral artery dissection and a small ischemic stroke after initial neck pain ...

The risk of a heart attack among adults after a clot-caused stroke or a stroke plus a tear in the wall of a neck artery (carotid or vertebral artery dissection) was almost double within the first year ...

BPSS was initially described in four patients in 1974 — the term was coined nearly two decades later, in 1993, by a New York ...

Our search identified 3996 unique citations, of which 3485 (87.2%) were excluded at the abstract level (Fig. 1). Agreement was 98.5% for yes/no ratings at the abstract level, with κ=0.65. We did not ...