Endothelial senescence of the vertebral artery in the context of cervical degeneration: biomechanically driven remodeling of the hemodynamic environment (opens in new tab)

Cervical spine degeneration is frequently accompanied by long-term alterations in the hemodynamic environment of the vertebral arteries. Traditionally, vascular abnormalities associated with cervical degeneration have been interpreted mainly from the perspectives of structural compression or macroscopic hemodynamic disturbance. However, these explanations do not fully account for the functional instability of posterior circulation perfusion that may occur even in the absence of overt arterial...