Basilar Artery Syndrome

Preferred Label : Basilar Artery Syndrome;

NCIt definition : A syndrome which occurs as a result of the occlusion of the basilar artery. It may be caused by atherosclerosis, embolism or hemorrhage. Clinical signs include dizziness, headache, vomiting, hemiparesis or hemiplegia, dysarthria, dysphagia, blurred vision and loss of consciousness. The clinical course is variable and is dependent upon the extent of the occlusion and the location of the clot along the basilar artery which determines the resultant neurologic impairment. Prognosis is dismal in cases where a complete occlusion occurs with rapid deterioration of neurological function.;

Details

Origin ID

C34413;

UMLS CUI

C0004812;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Basilar artery syndrome [ICD-9 code]
- Basilar artery syndrome [ICD-11 More detail]
- basilar artery insufficiency [DO Concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Basilar artery syndrome [MedDRA LLT]
- Basilar artery syndrome (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Vertebro-basilar artery syndrome [ICD-10 Sub-category]
- Vertebro-basilar artery syndrome [ICD-10 Sub-category (who)]
- Vertebrobasilar artery syndrome [MedDRA LLT]
- Vertebrobasilar artery syndrome [ICD-11 More detail]
- Vertebrobasilar artery syndrome (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- basilar artery syndrome [SNOMED Notion]
DO Cross reference
- basilar artery insufficiency [DO Concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Basilar artery syndrome [MedDRA LLT]
- Basilar artery syndrome [ICD-9 code]
- Basilar artery syndrome (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Basilar insufficiency [MedDRA LLT]
- basilar artery insufficiency [DO Concept]
- basilar artery insufficiency [MeSH concept]
- basilar artery syndrome [SNOMED Notion]

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