Carotid-cavernous sinus fistulae are rare, but serious, vascular anomalies which may develop following traumatic injury to the skull base. Fractures or the shearing forces of severe head trauma ...

If faced with such a dilemma, try these eight easy maneuvers that can be performed practically anywhere: Gently pressing on your eyeballs can sometimes stop hiccups spontaneously. It works by ...

Background Occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) may extend into the middle or anterior cerebral artery (ICA-T) or be confined to the intracranial (ICA-I) or extracranial segment (ICA-E).

Vagal maneuvers, including the Valsalva maneuver and carotid sinus massage, are the first-line interventions for SVT of unknown origin in stable patients. 6 If vagal maneuvers do not terminate the SVT ...

the vagus nerve can be activated by loud singing, humming, chanting, gargling water, taking slow, deep breaths from the belly, practicing yoga, immersing in cold water and getting a massage.

The classic work of Weiss and his associates 6–8 produced the classification of four types of carotid-sinus syncope: first, the vagal type ... light pressure or massage is applied with the ...

These patients were subjected to CNA after demonstration of the existence of a dominant functional component (extrinsic, vagal) underlying the bradyarrhythmic ... tilt up test and carotid sinus ...

If you have seizures which can’t be controlled with epilepsy medicines, and you are not able to have epilepsy brain surgery, then vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy may be an option for you. The ...

Methods We report out preliminary experience with a real time AI assistance software, Neuro-Vascular Assist (iMed technologies, Tokyo, Japan), in six patients who underwent carotid artery stenting.

Over the last several decades, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has evolved from a treatment ... reflect the thyroid superiorly and the left sternocleidomastoid inferiorly to expose the carotid fossa. No ...