I have been working with a variety of companies this year. One technology that continues to be at the forefront of medical technology is interventional neuroradiology. Taking a device a threading it through the blood stream to manage a medical condition that is done in a very minimally invasive manner. Medical technology around this subject is something to keep an eye on.
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Medical Word of the Day: Interventional Neuroradiology
A subspecialty of neuroradiology in which minimally invasive therapy can be effected by advancing various devices within a blood vessel to a point of a previously identified lesion–eg, an intracranial aneurysm
Medical Word Definition: Neuroradiology:
The field within radiology that specializes in the use of radioactive substances, x-rays and scanning devices for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the nervous system. Neuroradiology involves the clinical imaging, therapy, and basic science of the central and peripheral nervous system, including but not limited to the brain, spine, head and neck, interventional procedures, techniques in imaging and intervention, and related educational, socioeconomic, and medicolegal issues.
What is a What is a Vascular and Interventional Neurologist? (From the Society of vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN)
Vascular and Interventional Neurologist is a physician specialized in treating neurological and stroke conditions using minimally invasive procedures. The specialty is evolved in collaboration with specialists from vascular neurology, neurocritical care, interventional neuro-radiology, and endovascular neurosurgery. To become a vascular and interventional neurologist, a physician has to complete general neurology training followed by one year of stroke training or neurocritical care training and two years of hands on training in neuro-interventional procedures. The neuro-interventional procedures are performed under the guidance of X-ray monitors through the groin artery. The procedures include, but not limited to dissolving clots from blocked brain arteries in patient with stroke, or removing the clot with snare like devices, placing a stent “mesh like tube” to keep the brain and carotid arteries open, treating brain aneurysm by placing platinum coils, treating brain arteriovenous malformation with glue embolization. In addition, procedures to alleviate back pain such as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty to implant a cement material to repair compression back fracture are performed.
More information can be found through the Society of vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN)
The following is a list of diseases and conditions typically treated by neurointerventionists.
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
- Carotid-cavernous fistula (CCF)
- Dural arteriovenous fistula
- Extracranial (brachiocephalic) atherosclerosis
- Extracranial (head and neck) and paraspinal vascular malformations
- Head and neck tumors
- Intracranial atherosclerosis
- Juvenile nasopharyngeal tumor
- Meningiomas
- Nosebleeds
- Paragangliomas
- Stroke
- Spinal vascular malformations
- Traumatic vascular lesions
- Vasospasm
- Vertebral body tumors
- Vertebral body compression fractures
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