A cerebral angiogram checks for abnormalities in the blood vessels of your brain. The procedure has a handful of related names. These include: Carotid angiogram or angiography Cerebral angiogram or ...

Robert is a 39-year-old male who presented with a 5-day history of severe headaches treated initially with antibiotics for suspected sinusitis by his primary-care physician. Robert's headaches did not ...

A 24 year-old woman presented with headaches followed by lethargy and then coma. On examination, her pupils were small but reactive to light. She had no vertical upgaze with a doll's head maneuver.

Cerebral angiography is a diagnostic test that uses an X-ray. It produces a cerebral angiogram, or an image that can help your doctor find blockages or other abnormalities in the blood vessels of your ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare form of cerebral circulatory disorder that, unlike classic stroke, more often affects younger people. For unknown reasons, blood clots (thrombi) form in cerebral ...

This diagnostic strategy is not without problems. Angiography has a poor sensitivity and specificity (see Table 2 for the sensitivities and specificities of the diagnostic tests for vasculitis) for ...

An 18 year-old woman presented with headaches followed by lethargy and then coma. On examination, she had papilledema. She withdrew the left side more than the right, to a painful stimulus. Cerebral ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. announced on April 13 that they are recommending a "pause" of single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines from being administered as they investigate "extremely rate" blood ...

The common clinical features of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are intracranial haemorrhage, seizure, headache, or other signs of an intracranial mass. 1 Dural AVMs (DAVMs) have been estimated to ...

IN modern civilizations an enormous toll of suffering and death is exacted by local disorders of brain blood flow. Regional hemodynamic failure, with unique rapidity, produces anoxic devastation in ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is when a blood clot forms in a vein of the brain. This can lead to blood vessels breaking, causing blood to leak into brain tissues. The cerebral veins are a network ...