Curriculum & Training
Fellows in the Cedars-Sinai Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship receive continuous and rigorous clinical training and supervision in performing neuroendovascular techniques. The fellowship training highlights correct clinical and imaging diagnostic work-up, physical examination, therapeutic decision-making, complication avoidance and management, perioperative management and interdisciplinary management strategies. These goals are achieved through daily work and teaching rounds, participation in the cases and weekly teaching conferences.
The Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship also provides exceptional opportunities for training and experience in research, including clinical research through participation in multicenter randomized clinical trials and direct mentorship from expert clinical trialists; and in basic science research, through elective collaboration with the Cedars-Sinai neuroscience faculty and the Cedars-Sinai neurovascular laboratory, directed by Nestor Gonzalez, MD.
Specific Objectives
Endovascular Neurosurgery fellows are trained to apply clinical, epidemiologic and cerebrovascular knowledge to the care of patients, demonstrate analytical thinking approach to clinical situations, and teach and support team members. Fellows are expected to develop competence in the following procedures:
- Diagnostic (selective and superselective) catheter angiography of the brain, head and neck, spinal cord and spine for both adults and children
- Endovascular embolization of intracranial aneurysms using coils with or without stent assistance
- Endovascular trapping of intracranial and extracranial aneurysms
- Angioplasty and stenting of the extracranial carotid arteries
- Transarterial and transvenous embolization of cerebral and spinal arteriovenous malformations and arteriovenous fistulas using superselective injection of liquid and particulate embolic materials
- Percutaneous angioplasty and stenting of intracranial cerebral arteries
- Temporary occlusion and provocative testing of carotid arteries and permanent occlusion of these vessels in the treatment of carotid blowout, cranial base tumors and giant aneurysm
- Selective and superselective intra-arterial provocative testing of eloquent neurologic function
- Acute thromboembolic stroke management using superselective mechanical, aspiration and chemical thrombolysis
- Chemical and mechanical angioplasty in the treatment of cerebral vasospasm
- Intra-arterial and direct puncture embolization of intracranial, head and neck and spine vascular lesions
- Transarterial and transvenous embolization of congenital and acquired arteriovenous abnormalities and direct puncture sclerotherapy of low-flow vascular malformations
Cerebrovascular Training
The Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship program covers the training of the fellows in the diagnosis and management of cerebrovascular diseases, including but not limited to:
- Acute cerebral stroke
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Cerebral vascular malformations
- Facial and orbital vascular malformations
- Intracranial atherosclerosis
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Carotid artery stenosis
- Cushing’s disease
- Tumor embolization
- Spinal tumors
- Spinal vascular malformations
- Pediatric vascular disorders
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