Dr. Robert Solomon spoke at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (AAcNS) held earlier this month. Bruce and Quest also elected Officers...

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote the story of Donna Ainsworth (Get This Thing Out of my Head!). Donna narrowly escaped a fatal aneurysm with the help of Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center. Donna was so moved by our posting that she wrote this lovely letter to Dr. Lavine...

Dr. Robert Solomon has been treating patients with brain aneurysms for a very long time and he has seen it all.  Some of the most challenging to treat, he says, are the amorphous or "giant" aneurysms of the basilar artery.  Researchers* at the Cerebrovascular Center recently pulled together...

Donna Ainsworth doesn't take anything for granted anymore. Not after surviving a Giant Aneurysm that first caused unbearable pain, then nearly blinded her in one eye, and finally almost killed her...

Today we are seeing the integration of medicine and technology like never before and no where is this more true than in a subspecialty of medicine you may never have even heard of called Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology (ESNR). ESNR is formally defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education as “a clinical subspecialty for the diagnosis and treatment of neurovascular diseases using x-ray fluoroscopy and angiography.”

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[video src="http://d2fexuft304e76.cloudfront.net/Pterional-HD" format="m4v,flv" poster="/images/noc-poster.jpg" options="autoplay" id="Pterional-HD"] The patient is a 44 year-old man who presented to the ED after the sudden onset of severe headache and was found to have an SAH on head CT....

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...

This month the Congress of Neurological Surgeons'(CNS)  University of Neurosurgery has chosen Dr. E. Sander Connolly from the Cerebrovascular Center as their "expert faculty."  All month, they are exploring the vascular subspecialty and on the 16th, Dr. Connolly taught a webinar course in...

Two years ago at their annual meeting the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) introduced Integrated Medical Learning (IML), a great new way to make the most of having so many neurosurgeons in the same place at the same time.  According to the CNS website, "Integrated Medical Learning® allows...