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...

For Steve Hartler, 2009 was not shaping up to be a very good year. At 48, he had just filed for bankruptcy leaving himself and more than 60 employees out of work, and with the economy in the tank, no prospects on the horizon. To make matters worse, Steve had just woken up with no feeling on the left side of his body....

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 27th Annual Brazilian Congress of Neurosurgery will be held in early September this year and Department Chair, Dr. Robert Solomon and Head of the Spine Center, Dr. Paul C. McCormick are getting their presentations ready.  They are both going to be very busy. This Congress is highly...

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...

Drs. Robert Solomon and Sean Lavine perform the first vascular neurosurgical operation in the new Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center last month.  The procedure was done in the hybrid open surgical and fully...

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....