Patient Information

Whatever the crisis, our Division of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease specialists create a continuum of care—from the moment a patient arrives—to minimize damage and give you the best chance of survival and recovery of quality of life and function. We are global leaders in the treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and aneurysms.

After a devastating cerebrovascular event, outcome may totally depend on the resources, monitoring, and action taken in the first 24 to 72 hours. That is why many families request transfer to our NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and its Neurological Intensive Care Units (Neuro-ICU), as the only multi-disciplinary, academic, neurocritical care facility in the greater New York area. We are national leaders in research devoted to developing advanced treatments for life-threateniThe clinicians in the Division provide comprehensive and multi-disciplinary care to any type of cerebrovascular diagnosis. Upon making an appointment staff will ask that you obtain any outside records that cannot be visualized via Epic/MyChart, and that you bring a physical copy of any imaging on a CD as well as the final reports. As part of your appointment the clinician will review all those images and reports, along with performing a comprehensive history and physical examination. As a teaching institution, we are committed to educating the next generation of stroke clinicians, and therefore you may be evaluated initially by a neurology resident under the direct supervision of a faculty member in the division who will determine the diagnosis and best treatment plans. It is possible that before or after your visit, the physician will determine that you will benefit from a diagnostic ultrasound (see link to the doppler page) to complete the assessment of your cerebrovascular disease. Your clinician will develop personalized treatment recommendations which may include referral to specialists that work closely with cerebrovascular disease patients such as cardiology, hematology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, and others. Depending on your diagnosis, the clinician may recommend that you do not need additional vascular neurology follow-up, or recommend additional visits with the neurologist or our nurse practitioner.ng neurological diseases, and offer the most sophisticated diagnostic technologies in neuroscience.

NYPSTAT: One-call Patient Transfers

To learn more about NewYork-Presbyterian's hospital-to-hospital patient transfer service, visit NYP.org, or call the NewYork­-Presbyterian Hospital Emergency Transfer Hotline at 1-800-NYP-STAT.