Traumatic vertebral artery injury: Denver grade, bilaterality, and stroke risk. A systematic review and meta-analysis

CONCLUSIONS: VAI complicates a small yet nontrivial fraction of blunt trauma cases, with Denver grade IV lesions being the most common. This is the first study to document a significantly higher stroke prevalence among grade III and IV VAIs compared with grade I and II VAIs independently from bilaterality. Bilateral VAIs carry a significantly higher stroke rate.PMID:37548568 | DOI:10.3171/2023.5.JNS222818

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Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - August 7, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Giorgos D Michalopoulos Zach Pennington Peter Bambakidis A Yohan Alexander Nikita Lakomkin Charalampos Charalampous Sally El Sammak Leslie C Hassett Stephen Graepel Fredric B Meyer Mohamad Bydon Source Type: research