Program Goals
The goal of the Neurointerventional Radiology Division of UMass Memorial Medical Center is to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art, minimally invasive care to patients with vascular diseases of the brain and spine including stroke, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformations, vascular stenosis and spinal abnormalities.
Therapeutic Procedures and Case Load:
- Cerebral (brain) angiography
- Spinal angiography
- Brain aneurysm treatment (coil embolization, stenting, flow diversion)
- Brain and spinal arteriovenous malformations treatment
- Acute ischemic stroke treatment
- Carotid and vertebral artery stenting
- Vertebral augmentation (kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty)
- Epistaxis embolization
- Brain and spinal tumor embolization
- Sclerotherapy of vascular abnormalities
- Treatment of pediatric brain and spinal vascular abnormalities
- Spinal bone biopsies
- Intracranial stenting
In 2019 we performed more than 1,800 cases. On average annually, we treat between 900-1,100 patients, including up to 600 cerebral angiograms, up to 200 aneurysms, 150 stroke interventions and more than 200 spinal interventions.