Minimally Invasive Treatment for Brain Aneurysms: Hartford Hospital Introduces The First Fully-Integrated 3D Biplane Angiographic Lab in Connecticut

Hartford, CT -- Hartford Hospital is introducing a revolutionary angiographic biplane lab enhancing the performance of minimally invasive treatments for those suffering from brain aneurysms. Connecticuts first Fully-Integrated 3D Biplane Angiographic Lab, will be the focus of an Internet webcast on Tuesday, October 21 at 6:00 pm EDT (22:00 UTC), from Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT.
Viewers will have the rare opportunity to observe how this sophisticated X-ray unit, known as the Artis Biplane Angiographic System will present physicians with a three-dimensional view of blood vessels in the brain. This new technology will allow highly skilled physicians in endovascular neurosurgery to better visualize and access diseased blood vessels of the brain facilitating and enabling repair of aneurysms, correcting vessel blockages, and perform other therapeutic procedures. These advances will prove beneficial to patients of stroke, as well as victims of aneurysms, arterial malformations or other vascular aneurysms.
Under the direction and leadership of Gary Spiegel, MD, director of Endovascular NeuroIntervention and co-medical director of the Stroke Center, these minimally invasive procedures can often replace conventional neurosurgical clipping of brain aneurysms. These revolutionary procedures are performed via a catheter threaded from the groin up into the aneurysmal sac, rather than by the traditional surgical approach that requires opening the skull and pushing away portions of the brain in order to access the aneurysm. Once in the aneurysm, the fine coated platinum coils are placed in its sac. This effectively eliminates blood flow through the weak aneurysmal sac, protecting the patient from a life-threatening rupture.

Approximately 2 million Americans have brain aneurysms, and about 1 out of 6 have more than one. Hartford Hospitals new biplane lab with its state-of-the-art vessel visualization, advanced coiling procedures, along with the most active program of cerebral revascularisation procedures for acute ischemic stroke represent the most comprehensive care for brain vessel aneurysms in Connecticut.

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