Cervical artery dissection occurs when there is a tear or injury to the lining of a blood vessel or artery in the neck.

A healthy man in his 40s presented with acute anterolateral ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after sudden-onset chest pain during a coughing episode. Coronary angiography and intravascular ...

A 42 year-old man developed right neck pain followed by a left hemiparesis. Carotid Artery Dissection: (Left) Right Carotid Angiogram at the level of the carotid bifurcation; (Middle) Right Internal ...

In patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), key clinical features were associated with the risk for concomitant cervical artery dissection in a retrospective observational ...

Angiogenesis inhibitors showed no increased risk of arterial dissections or aneurysms in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. The study involved 34,733 patients, with 195 cases matched to 1950 ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic, nontraumatic separation of the coronary arterial walls and causes acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. Image Credit: ...

People who developed a type of aneurysm with a cervical artery dissection (a tear in the inner lining of the neck artery wall), a known cause of stroke, particularly in young adults, did not have an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Influenza-like illness was associated with increased risk for arterial dissections in the aorta, the cervical ...

There are several risk factors for arterial dissection, including history of trauma to cervical spine, history of migraine-type headache, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cardiac diseases, vascular ...

A 43 year-old woman noted a "popping" sensation in the right neck while on the toilet. Thirty minutes later, she developed an acute left hemiplegia. Carotid Artery Dissection: Fat suppression axial ...