Neurological Surgery
Vascular disorders
NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has a rich history in managing complex vascular conditions of the young and developing brain. Working in close collaboration with the Interventional Radiology Department, we have greatly reduced the risks and improved outcome in children with complex vascular conditions such as arteriovenous malformations (AVM), aneurysms and Moyamoya disease.
Our team works collaboratively with the Hospital's pediatric hematologists and have published the largest series of children with Moyamoya and sickle cell anemia. Using highly focused radiation therapy in the form of the gamma knife (known as stereotactic radiosurgery) allows us to treat AVMs in very delicate and deep-seated locations in the brain. Without this technology many of these vascular lesions were thought to be untreatable in the past. Not every child with a vascular lesion of the brain or spinal cord requires surgery. Working with our team, many children have been successfully cured never having to have undergone open neurosurgery.
