The Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center offers the very latest innovative therapies to our patients, many of which we have pioneered or helped to develop. These advanced, new treatments often mean shorter recovery times, less risk and overall better outcomes than older therapies. Because the newer treatments avoid the need for major operations, they maximize the likelihood of a full recovery for many patients.

Endovascular therapy

Perhaps the most exciting advance is the ability to perform minimally invasive procedures on the brain and blood vessels. This is known as endovascular therapy. Using miniature high-tech tools, physicians can create tiny openings in the body and pass the tools they need to repair neurological damage through the holes to the site of the problem. They then can mend the problem from within the blood vessel rather than having to cut it open via external surgery. The delicate procedures are guided by highly sophisticated, real-time brain monitoring and neuroimaging equipment.

Endovascular treatments available at the Stroke & Cerebrovascular Center include:

• Carotid bypass procedures, which few other facilities are capable of doing.
• Intra-arterial thrombolysis, allowing the clot-dissolving drug, tPA, to be delivered straight to the source of the clot, instead of waiting for it to flow from a vein to the brain.
• Cerebrovascular repairs using microcatheters to deliver microstents, bioactive microcoils and liquid adhesives
• Stent remodeling of vessels for aneurysm therapy