Vascular Disorders
At Children’s of Alabama, children with disorders of the cerebrovascular system are cared for by a multidisciplinary team of specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, hematology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. A state-of-the-art bi-planar angiography suite is utilized to provide cutting edge care to children with these blood vessel disorders. In addition to the medical management of stroke, our neurosurgery team has expertise in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations, cavernomas, aneurysms and Moyamoya disease. We are also the only pediatric center in Alabama that performs Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of arteriovenous malformations.
Conditions we treat
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Moyamoya disease
- Cavernous malformations/cavernomas
- Pial synangiosis
- Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis
- Gamma knife radiosurgery