Vascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery Service of "Saint Gregory the Illuminator" Medical Center is located on the third floor (A3) of the surgical building.
The service is staffed by young but experienced physicians who are constantly improving abroad. The middle and junior medical staff of the service knows the specifics of managing neurosurgical patients.
The service is unique in the Republic of Armenia with some of the types of activity it provides, particularly in the sense of vascular pathology. The service specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of the following pathologies:
- Traumatic brain and spine injuries
- Cerebral aneurysms
- Arteriovenous malformations and fistulas of brain and spine
- Ischemic stroke
- Neoplasms of skull, brain, spine and spinal cord
- Hydrocephalus and intracranial hypertension
- Degenerative disorders of spine
- Inflammatory diseases of brain and spine
- Sequelae of traumatic injuries and stroke
- Neurovascular conflicts
The following surgeries and interventions are performed:
- Surgical treatment of cranial and spinal injuries
- Surgical treatment of subacute/chronic subdural hematomas
- Endovascular obliteration of aneurysms (with microcoils, stent-assistance, flow-diverting stent) or clipping
- Diagnostic cerebral or spinal angiography, endovascular embolization or microsurgical treatment of arteriovenous malformations and fistulas of the brain and spinal cord
- Thrombectomy, balloon angioplasty and stenting of extracranial and intracranial vessels
- Microsurgical removal or biopsy of superficial and deep- located cranial and spinal neoplasms (using neuronavigation if necessary)
- External ventricular or lumbar drainage, ventriculoperitoneal or lumboperitoneal shunting
- Intracranial pressure monitoring
- Microscopic removal of intervertebral disc herniations of the cervical and lumbar spine using necessary instrumentation
- Anterior or posterior fusion of the spine, kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty, laminoplasty, laminectomy
- Surgical treatment of epidural, subdural, intracerebral purulent processes
- Cranioplasty
- Microvascular decompression