Media contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 [email protected] CINCINNATI—A multi-center study supports the effectiveness of the newest technology available for the treatment of difficult, life-threatening brain aneurysms. The technology, the Pipeline embolization device, is a flow diverter that redirects blood flow away from wide-necked or giant aneurysms that cannot be treated in more conventional ways. Andrew…
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The Community Press article features Joanne Kellam, a patient of Mario Zuccarello, MD, of the Mayfield Clinic and Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Center. Milford Resident Helps Symposium through Support Group Publication: Community Press Milford/Clermont County
The 34th Heart Walk & Run was Kerry Ellensohn’s first 5k since her aneurysm rupture in 2009 and treatment by Andrew Ringer, MD, neurosurgeon with UCNI and the Mayfield Clinic. She finished second among survivors! http://bit.ly/eBOpMC Publication: Local 12 WKRC
Contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 [email protected] CINCINNATI – The Tri-State Brain Aneurysm Support Group will present its sixth annual symposium on Saturday, April, 9, at the Vontz Center on the University of Cincinnati (UC) Academic Health Center campus. The free symposium, entitled “Fresh Start – Taking One Day at a Time,” will run from 8:15 a.m….
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Alison Delgado, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center resident critically injured in an October bicycle crash, underwent a successful five-hour surgery Tuesday to repair a brain injury not caused by her accident. Mario Zuccarello, MD, the Frank H. Mayfield Professor and Chairman of the UC Department of Neurosurgery, performed Dr. Delgado’s surgery. http://bit.ly/g4YQNY Publication: Cincinnati…
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Contact: Keith Herrell (513) 558-5449 [email protected] CINCINNATI—Stroke researchers at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute have confirmed two gene variants that raise the risk of aneurysm, a blood vessel in the brain that weakens and balloons out. In addition, the researchers found that smoking, the biggest risk factor for brain aneurysm, greatly increases the risk…
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Contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 [email protected] CINCINNATI– The risks associated with treating a recurrent or residual brain aneurysm that was initially treated by endovascular coiling are low, according to a multicenter study led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute. In the study of 311 patients with coiled aneurysms who underwent retreatment procedures…
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She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered word, the young pediatric resident has come back from a bicycle accident that caused serious…
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In November of 2004, Zettie Williams confronted what neurologists consider one of the most feared consequences of stroke. When a therapist showed her a photograph of her son, she knew she was looking at her son, but she couldn’t say his name. Ms. Williams was suffering from aphasia, a language impairment that makes communication difficult….
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Leah is a young woman who sings, dances, and plays the guitar. She is also a survivor of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). It is rare for someone in her mid-teens to have had an AVM, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain or spine that can cause devastating effects if it begins to…
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She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered word, the young pediatric resident has come back from a bicycle accident that caused serious…
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The only visible sign of Amber Gray’s ordeal is the long slender scar that runs along her forearm. It is the area where a surgeon carefully removed her radial artery, which was needed to bypass a damaged artery in her brain. Another scar, where Mario Zuccarello, MD, opened the skull to perform the bypass and…
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