Basilar artery occlusions (BAOs) are a subset of posterior circulation strokes. Particular
issues relevant to BAOs include variable and stuttering symptoms at onset resulting in …

Background Treatment strategies for acute basilar artery occlusion (BAO) are based on case
series and data that have been extrapolated from stroke intervention trials in other …

Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is an infrequent but often fatal subtype of stroke. Predicting
outcomes and selecting patients for endovascular therapy (EVT) remains challenging …

Basilar artery occlusion is assumed to carry a grave prognosis, with mortality rates of up to
90%. Diagnosis is often delayed, or even missed, as a result of the variety of clinical …

The clinical presentation of basilar artery occlusion (BAO) ranges from mild transient
symptoms to devastating strokes with high fatality and morbidity. Often, non-specific …

Background and Purpose—Acute basilar artery occlusion portends high risk of stroke and
death. Thrombolysis or endovascular therapy has been limited to patients who present …

Background Basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is associated with a high mortality rate, although
cases with spontaneous favorable outcomes have recently been reported, and basilar artery …

Background: Most data on the outcome of basilar artery occlusion are from recent case
series of patients treated with intra-arterial thrombolysis. The limited knowledge on the …

Basilar artery (BA) occlusion is generally believed to have a high mortality. A favorable
outcome is rarely reported. A consecutive series of 20 survivors with angiographically …

Background and Purpose—While intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-
PA) has been approved for acute stroke therapy within 3 hours, the optimum management of …