Which type of surgery is the best varies, depending on the individual patient and their unique version of moyamoya and vessel anatomy. There are two major types of surgeries to increase blood flow to ...

But paradoxically, it can also lead to further damage to the blood vessels in the brain. "This is the first time we've looked at how the brain's blood vessels react to a stroke at the molecular ...

Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD The posterior communicating artery (PCOM) is a part of a group of arteries in ...

These blows can rupture vital blood vessels around the brain, triggering rapid bleeding that causes instant symptoms or slowly compresses the brain, leading to a coma and eventual death.

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...