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If I would wait two more minute a whole side probably been paralyzed, and I wouldn't be able to talk. I am grateful for the care I received from the entire team physicians, nurses, tech's, and therapists at the neurosciences institute. It was for them I wouldn't be here sitting talking. I think about it every day just because I won't ever forget. I look in the mirror and I think about it every day but in a good way. I think about it how life is short and I don't take anything for granted.

Steven Owens & Denise Moss

Oct 28
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MRI For I|H: Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Additional Cerebral Spinal Fluid Pathologies

This research work targets the contribution of cerebrovascular pathology to idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) otherwise known as pseudotumor cerebri. Cerebrovascular abnormalities often mimic symptoms of IIH and are also found coincident with the disease. It is unclear what specific vascular abnormalities are in subjects with true pseudotumor. The objective of this study is to address this knowledge gap by refining non-invasive vascular MR techniques.

Oct 28
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Transradial: Registry of Transradial Access for Angiography.

Disruption of the cerebral blood flow during acute ischemic stroke disrupts oxygen and glucose delivery to cells, leading to injury of cellular organelles such as mitochondria. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been recognized as one of the major contributors to neuronal death after stroke. We are studying a treatment called mitochondrial transplant, where a patient's healthy mitochondria are injected into an artery in the brain that supplies tissue damaged from an ischemic strok

Oct 28
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Biodegradable Stents: In vitro medical device testing

Our lab has developed a proving ground for newly developed endovascular medical devices. We are able to treat 3D-printed models of common cerebrovascular diseases (such as aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations) with medical devices the same way they would be used in surgery. We then use a suite of benchtop and computational methods to test the efficacy and safety of these devices. This suite includes computational fluid dynamics, particle image velocimetry, microtomographi

Oct 28
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AHA Platelets: Improving the computational modeling of cerebral aneurysms treated with flow-diverting stents utilizing platelet activation simulations

With support from the American Heart Association we use computer representations of actual patients' brain blood vessels with cerebral aneurysms to simulate blood flow in and around the aneurysms before and after treatment with flow-diverting stents. We apply a special computer modeling technique that simulates thousands of individual platelets within the computer simulation of blood flow to understand how flow-diverting stents cause platelets to activate, leading to clotting

Oct 28
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Emboli Monitoring: Detection of Peripheral Arterial Emboli using Doppler Ultrasound

This project aims to uncover the relationship between blood clots outside the brain and the occurrence of emboli in the cerebral vasculature as well as their associated risk of stroke. The occurrence of emboli in the cerebral vasculature is thought to correspond with the risk of stroke. Therefore, by performing peripheral arterial Doppler ultrasound scans on patients at risk of stroke as well as standard-of- care cerebral transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound scans in adult c

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