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The article presents a case study of a 35-year-old and 23 weeks pregnant Karin Satrom in Brooklyn, New York who was taken to the New York Methodist Hospital due to dizziness with double seeing and was diagnosed with vertebral artery dissection.

The article reports on the publication of the 2011 Guideline on the Management of Patients With Extracranial Carotid and Vertebral Artery Disease which highlighted the safety and efficacy of carotid artery stenting for patients requiring revascularization.

The article focuses on a preliminary autopsy report which says that Mike Coolbaugh, the coach of the baseball team Tulsa Drillers, has died because of a burst blood vessel in his neck. It is stated that the coach was hit by a batted ball on July 22, 2007. An officer said that Coolbaugh's left vertebral artery had been compressed by the ball.