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Advanced Diagnosis and Treatment for Brain AVM with Mayo Clinic Experts
At Mayo Clinic, you’ll have a team of experts in brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) who have the experience and knowledge to provide you with an accurate diagnosis, a customized care plan, and the latest treatment innovations.
Brain AVM expertise, on your side.
People who have a brain AVM often can be treated successfully to prevent or reduce the risk of complications. We diagnose and treat more than 450 people for AVMs and other vascular abnormalities affecting the brain each year. We can help.
Innovation and treatment options.
Our expertise in brain AVM means we can offer every treatment option available, including surgery, noninvasive treatment, embolization, and watchful waiting. Clinical trials and other clinical studies may be available to you.
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons pioneered surgical techniques and noninvasive stereotactic radiosurgery for brain AVM, and in our state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities our experts are constantly seeking new innovations.
Coordinated care by a team of experts.
Your care team will include doctors from multiple disciplines, all working together to plan your care. This includes neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and all other specialists you may need.
Your Mayo Clinic doctors can work closely with your local care provider to coordinate treatment and follow-up care in your community.
When it's time to find answers, you know where to go.
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Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Neurovascular Care
Getting the diagnosis right the first time is critical. It offers the patient immediate therapy. It offers closure. Most vascular diseases are very unique to the patient. Being able to treat each patient individually is, I think, exceedingly important. We have a multidisciplinary evaluation where we look at the whole patient and look at every single thing that could possibly happen, and then discuss what is in the patient's best interests. The most common things that we see, are strokes, aneurysms of the brain are more common than we think. Then we deal with more rare type things, blood vessel abnormalities of the brain. The Mayo model of care really lends itself to the treatment of rare and complicated disease. Brain imaging and arterial imaging is extremely important in the field of neurovascular disease. And here at Mayo, we're so fortunate to have imaging options available at the highest possible quality.
We now see inside the body in a way we never did with all sorts of other advances in post-processing and analysis of the images, we can make much more specific diagnoses. There have been many, many innovations. The main change over the past 30 years has been the advances in endovascular techniques. Many of these problems can be effectively dealt with by going through the blood vessels, um, and without the need to expose the brain or the spinal cord. I enjoy working with neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and collaborating on these patients that have difficult situations, and we want to make their lives better. It's important to try as much as possible to treat the patient as one of our family members. I think that if we're able to do that, you are already a very good doctor because you always worry and you don't take anything for granted.
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