How much do you know about neurointervention?

  With the rapid development of imaging technology in recent years, interventional techniques in various medical disciplines have also developed rapidly. Previously, surgery may have been the exclusive name of surgery, however, as an internist, the volume of procedures in our department is as few as 10 and as many as nearly 20 per week. So what procedures can neurology interventions do?  The following is a brief introduction to the interventional procedures we perform: 1. Whole brain angiography: For every patient with cerebrovascular disease, evaluation of the cerebrovascular condition is very important because cerebrovascular disease can recur, and even if the current attack is mild, prevention is important later on. This is the importance of prevention and proactive planning. 2. Stenting of head and neck stenoses: For stenoses found by whole brain angiography, we have to give stenting, which is to put one or several metal props in the obviously stenosed vessels to mechanically prop up the vessels, and also to press the plaque on the local vessel wall under the stent to prevent the plaque from falling off and blocking the blood flow to 3, acute cerebral infarction arterial catheter thrombolysis: for patients with cerebral infarction that occurs within a few hours, it is possible to open the blood vessel by injecting drugs locally into the blocked vessel at this time, and if the operation is successful, the patient’s paralysis, etc. may be improved immediately. For example, we have a patient who suddenly appeared that one of his upper and lower limbs would not move at all, and he could not speak and could not wake up. Therefore, it is important to reach a large hospital that can do neurointerventional work as soon as possible after the occurrence of cerebral infarction. Otherwise, there is a risk of delaying the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.4. In addition to the above-mentioned interventional procedures, we also perform cerebral aneurysm embolization, spinal angiography, and some procedures for arterial stenosis and occlusion of the upper and lower limbs.  Of course, all the above mentioned procedures are minimally invasive, with only 1-2mm incisions and no stitches after surgery. The downside is that the cost of these procedures is relatively high, with procedures such as angiography costing several thousand dollars and procedures such as stenting costing tens of thousands of dollars.