Stroke & Aneurysm
The Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White has two fellowship-trained neurointerventional surgeons who perform a full spectrum of procedures related to neurological disease. They perform minimally invasive procedures to “coil” or otherwise endovascularly obliterate a majority of aneurysms without need for "open" surgery. They perform angiograms of the head and neck as well as spinal cord. They also place stents in cerebral vessels and perform cerebral blood vessel angioplasty.
In addition, the Department of Neurosurgery treats the vast majority of all types of aneurysms in the head. These include simple and complex aneurysms of the circulation to the brain that are not treatable with endovascular techniques.
Combined, the Neuroscience Institute can provide patients with a full spectrum of treatment options in the management of intra-cranial vascular abnormalities, ranging from aneurysms to arterio-venous malformations (AVMs) by treatments through the blood vessels themselves, as well as employing techniques requiring open surgery and clipping.