Dr. Sahlein specializes in the endovascular treatment of intracranial, skull base/neck, and spinal vascular disease using advanced minimally invasive, image-guided technologies.  Particular areas of interest include intracranial aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, and dural arteriovenous...

This month, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons held their 39th annual joint meeting of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section and our department presented two papers. One was authored by Dr. Paul Gigante, Dr. Neil Feldstein, and Dr. Richard...

Department Chair Dr. Robert Solomon directed a special program on stroke management earlier this month at the new state-of-the-art Education and Conference Center at the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center. The program, entitled Current Management of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic...

Dr. Sean Lavine was one of the distinguished faculty for the Codman Senior Fellow's Course recently held in Chicago, where he gave state-of-the-art instruction in the treatment of AVMs...

One evening, eight years ago, Dan Ricci came home to find ice cream melting on the counter and his wife passed out on the floor of their bathroom. His wife Nicole says, that afternoon, "out of the clear blue sky, I got the worst headache of my life." What she didn't know then, was that she was very close to losing her life...

The Associated Press reports that rocker turned reality-TV star, Bret Michaels, was rushed to an undisclosed hospital with a severe headache last Thursday evening where he was diagnosed with a hemorrhage at the base of his brainstem. The Washington Post said Sunday that he was still in critical...

Dr. Sean Lavine, on both our Endovascular Center and Cerebrovascular Center teams,  has recently been throughout the country directing courses and serving as a faculty instructor for neurosurgeons, neurologists, and radiologists interested in learning the techniques of neuroendovascular...

A Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) is a rare tangle of blood vessels in the brain that carries a high risk of hemorrhaging.  Brain surgeons have found that "gluing" or blocking off the blood supply to these malformations before surgery cuts down on blood loss and patients do better....

Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM) are a rare but potentially deadly tangle of blood vessels that can form in the brain.  Their cause is not completely understood but for some time now, scientists have suspected that there is a link between these formations and a specific protein called Vascular...

At the Gamma Knife Center they like to be thorough. Before they perform radiosurgery on someone's brain they do exhaustive tests to locate the problem. One of the problems they treat is called Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, AVM for short. An AVM happens when small blood vessels in the brain form a tangled mass. This mass can cause brain cells to die, it can start bleeding, and it often causes headaches and sometimes seizures.