Neuroendovascular and Stroke Treatment

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Recent office notes with diagnosis & reason for surgical consult
Recent imaging / scans from within the last 6 months

Upstate Medical University belongs to a select group of medical institutions which use both traditional surgical and current endovascular techniques. This allows us to offer patients who are experiencing a Stroke or other cerebrovascular disorders every possible solution to their highly complex and often life-threatening problems.

Among the ever-evolving treatment options are Gamma Knife radiosurgery, interventional neuroradiology, conventional open skull surgery, and preoperative embolization with arterial catheterization.

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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

Upstate Neurosurgery offers the world's most sophisticated neurosurgical tool—the Gamma Knife—the "Gold Standard" of radiosurgery for patients with brain tumors or disorders in risky or inaccessible locations. This tool is not actually a knife, but rather an organized group of directed beams of gamma radiation that eradicate small brain tumors and other disorders without an incision and without the pain, risk, and hospitalization that is associated with conventional brain surgery.

Interventional Neuroradiology

The development of new flexible flow directed catheters has given rise to a progressive program for interventional neuroradiology at Upstate Medical University. Among the applications:

Carotid Cavernous Fistulas: Using detachable, inflatable balloons to temporarily occlude the internal carotid artery
Occlusion of Major Feeding Vessels of Glomus Tumors: Using balloons prior to surgical resections
Managing Intracranial Aneurysms: Using endovascular techniques including GDC coils for obliteration of aneurysms and angioplasty with direct delivery for symptomatic cerebral vasospasm
Embolizing Large Skull-Base and Other Intracranial Tumors: Preoperatively using superselective arterial catheterization and injections of particulate materials to treat meningiomas, metastatic tumors to the spine and aneurysmal bone cyst tumors of the spine has dramatically facilitated surgical resection without requiring intra- and postoperative transfusions.
Guglielmi Detachable Coil (GDC): Three stages of the procedure for aneurysm obliteration.

Conventional Open Skull Surgery

Surgical treatment to remove or obliterate vascular diseases such as arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), aneurysms, arteriovenous (AV) Fistula, and bleeding problems.

Preoperative Embolization with Arterial Catherization

Reducing blood supply to tumors or bleeding tissue by insertion of vascular devices into the blood vessels that supply the problems.

Upstate Neurological Institute is a multidisciplinary team of experts providing the best in patient care and treatment options—and leading the region in advances for patient care, medical education and research in neuroscience.

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