Adding a balloon or stent procedure (endovascular angioplasty to widen blood vessels in the neck) to standard treatment may make little to no difference to the chance of another stroke or mini-stroke ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Highridge Medical, a leading privately held global spine company with a portfolio supported by extensive clinical evidence, announced that, effective today, UnitedHealthcare ® covers vertebral body ...

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the most prevalent spinal deformity in children, with an incidence reported between 0.47% and 5.2% worldwide. Posterior spinal fusion is the traditional treatment ...

The study included children and adolescents, and it found decreased vertebral height and depth among both groups of patients compared with healthy controls. Young patients with spinal muscular atrophy ...

Objective: To illustrate the significance of vertebral body infarction as the only confirmatory sign of spinal cord ischemic stroke. Setting: Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Bochum, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Amber Implants’ VCFix Spinal System, intended for treating a wide array of vertebral compression fractures. The minimally ...

Case 1. C.A. (S.E.H. No. 66–15874), a 49-year-old man, had syncopal episodes for 3 years occurring about once a week during the past year. The attacks were precipitated by driving a bus. Syncope was ...

Intravenous zoledronate (Reclast) administered once every 5 years reduced the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women, a randomized trial showed. Over 10 years of ...

Abbreviation: SINS, Spinal Instability Neoplastic Scoring system. The median and mean times to fracture for the entire group who experienced fracture were 2.46 months and 6.33 months, respectively ...

Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum or OAVS is a developmental disorder of craniofacial morphogenesis. Although the origin of OAVS is not yet identified, it is likely complex. Image Credit: Portrait ...