Ischemic cerebrovascular disease, a major public health problem, is accompanied, and possibly caused in a large percentage of cases, by extracranial arterial lesions. A rapidly expanding body of surgical litera­ ture records the success of procedures designed to re­ pair these lesions along with a decline in recent years in surgical mortality for such procedures. If an area of carotid abnormali...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of a spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in Israel's Prime Minister attracted the scrutiny of local and international media on neurosurgeons as they made therapeutic decisions. In the ensuing public debate, it was suggested that extraordinary measures (surgical treatment) were undertaken only because of the celebrity of the patient. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the criter...

Radiation therapy of neoplasms involving the chest or mediastinum results in a wide spectrum of cardiac complications including coronary artery disease, which can present in patients with few or no traditional cardiac risk factors. We report a case of radiation induced coronary artery disease in a 60-year-old female with a history of stage IIIA nonsmall cell lung carcinoma which was diagnosed e...