Impaired Brachial Flow-Mediated Dilatation May Predict Symptomatic Intracranial Arterial Dissections

Spontaneous intracranial arterial dissections are characterized by the sudden disruption of the internal elastic lamina in the intracranial arteries. The purpose of our retrospective study was to investigate whether patients with nontraumatic intracranial arterial dissections had normal endothelial function.

Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - July 19, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Tomonori Iwata, Takahisa Mori, Yuhei Tanno, Shigen Kasakura, Kazuhiro Yoshioka Source Type: research