Endovascular specialists, Dr. Dorothea Altschul and Dr. Philip Meyers served as moderators at the Advanced Interventional Management (AIM) Symposium in NYC recently. The AIM symposium is an international meeting that...

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...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center spoke to Residents about Endovascular Options for the Incompletely Treated Aneurysm...

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...

Our own Endovascular Surgeons Dr. Sean D. Lavine and Dr. Jobyna Whiting are featured in an article about a new upgrade for The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The hospital has just acquired a new neurointerventional biplane angiography system...

Dr. Sean Lavine from the Endovascular Center presented at two sessions during the recent American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting.  He was a panelist and speaker in a seminar comparing  surgical and endovascular treatment methods for patients with high-risk Carotid Artery...

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...

Normally, when any kind of surgery is performed, or even when you cut your finger, your blood clots. This is caused by a whole cascade of events beginning with blood platelets clumping together. This is a good thing because it stops blood loss and in the case of that cut finger, it provides the...

Science and technology have advanced by leaps and bounds in the last ten years and no where is this more true than in the field of cerebrovascular surgery.  This branch of neurosurgery deals with problems with the blood vessels that supply the brain.  New microsurgical and endovascular...

Lead author Dr. Brad Zacharia with Dr. E. Sander Connolly from the Cerebrovascular Center and colleagues received the Galbraith Award at this year's annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) for their study of the treatment of brain aneurysms in the State of New York. An...