Playboy model Katie May died in February ... tearing her left vertebral artery. The tear blocked blood flow to May’s brain and caused the stroke. Her cause of death is listed as “infarction ...

Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the ...

Figure 1a: AP or front view of a brain angiogram showing the right internal carotid artery narrowing into the small tangles of moyamoya “puff of smoke” vessels (red arrow). Figure 1b: A normal ...