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PAUL LINDELL: Getting the diagnosis right the first time is critical. It offers the patient immediate therapy. It offers closure. Most vascular diseases are very unique to the patient. Being able to treat each patient individually is, I think, exceedingly important.
EUGENE SCHARF: We have a multidisciplinary evaluation where we look at the whole patient and look at every single thing that could possibly happen and then discuss what is in the patient's best interest.
KELLY FLEMMING: The most common things that we see are strokes. Aneurysms of the brain are more common than we think. And then, we deal with more rare type things, blood vessel abnormalities of the brain.
JAMES KLAAS: The male model of care really lends itself to the treatment of rare and complicated disease.
ROBERT BROWN JR.: Brain imaging and arterial imaging is extremely important in the field of neurovascular disease. And here at Mayo, we are so fortunate to have imaging options available at the highest possible quality.
PAUL LINDELL: We now see inside the body in a way we never did. With all sorts of other advances in post-processing and analysis of the images, we can make much more specific diagnoses.
GIUSEPPE LANZINO: There have been many, many innovations. The main change over the past 30 years has been the advances in endovascular techniques. Many of these problems can be effectively dealt with by going through the blood vessels without the need to expose the brain or the spinal cord.
KELLY FLEMMING: I enjoy working with neurosurgery, neuroradiology and collaborating on these patients that have difficult situations. And we want to make their lives better.
GIUSEPPE LANZINO: It's important to try as much as possible to treat the patient as one of our family members. I think that if we're able to do that, you are already a very good doctor, because you always worry, and you don't take anything for granted.
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