Patients

A Guide for Our Patients

Cerebrovascular disorders include blood vessel related conditions in the central nervous system. These diseases may cause life-threatening or devastating neurological events. The most common disorders are listed below:

• Brain aneurysms.
• Brain or spinal vascular malformations: including arteriovenous malformations (AVM), arteriovenous fistulas (AVF), cavernous malformations (cavernoma), and developmental venous anomaly (DVA).
• Stroke.
• Carotid disease.
• Moyamoya.
• Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD).
• Subdural hematoma.
• Idiopathic intracranial hypertension.

Management consists of individualized treatment plans prepared by a dedicated team of open vascular neurosurgeons, endovascular neurosurgeons or neuro-interventionists, and stroke neurologists. In this section, we will briefly describe each of these conditions and their potential Management paradigms.

Additional information is available at the websites listed below.

• Brain Aneurysm Foundation is https://bafound.org
• The Aneurysm and AVM foundation is https://taafonline.org
• National Stroke Association is http://stroke.org
• American Stroke Association is www.strokeassociation.org/