Neurovascular - Mayo Clinic in FL

Mayo Clinic physicians are also researchers and educators, placing Mayo Clinic on the forefront of new diagnostic and treatment options every day. Our physicians apply these advanced learnings and technologies in tailoring individualized treatment based on the exact base cause of your specific neurovascular condition—all focused on providing you with the best outcome and quality of life.

Although many neurovascular conditions are rare, the Mayo Clinic teams have successfully treated even the rarest cases, and our subspecialized cerebrovascular team is a national leader in diagnosis, treatment, and management.

Mayo Clinic experts use advanced technology and imaging techniques to help determine the most effective treatment for each individual patient. Prior to surgery, our neurosurgeons often perform simulations with state-of-the-art technology, including 3-D modeling and holography, to visualize complex structures within the patient’s brain. This step is highly personalized and the least invasive approach that reduces the need for repeat procedures.

Mayo Clinic also offers the most advanced technologies and highest resolution imaging, including 7-Tesla MRI, for accurate diagnosis and treatment.

Every person’s health journey with neurovascular conditions is different. Effective treatment for these often-rare conditions is more than neurology, and therefore requires a multidisciplinary team. Our neurovascular specialists collaborate and work closely with physicians in other specialties of care to provide a truly tailored experience for every patient.

Our coordinated care plan includes:

Heart-Brain Clinic for complex clinical decision-making surrounding patent foramen ovale and left atrial appendance closure (Watchman device)
Moyamoya Clinic for patients with progressive intracranial stenosis and history of stroke or TIA
Cavernous Malformation Clinic for patients with cerebral cavernous malformations
Stroke Recovery Clinic for patients with persistent neurological deficits following ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke

Seeking a second opinion for any complex condition is common and encouraged. Think of it as a way to gain more understanding of the diagnosis, as well as more comfort and confidence in the next steps and outcomes for your individual condition. For those who are newly diagnosed with a neurovascular condition, a second opinion from Mayo Clinic ensures that a neurologist, neuroradiologist and neurosurgeon—with the latest research and medical discoveries—will either confirm your diagnosis and management approach, or guide you to a new one with a new treatment plan and options.

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.

Guiding Your Journey With a Neurovascular Condition

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Why Choose Mayo Clinic for Neurovascular Care