Program Provides Specialized Treatment of Brain Conditions

The team of the comprehensive brain care program evaluates, diagnoses and treats adults with a variety of brain conditions - including illness and injury, as well as vascular and structural brain abnormalities.

Conditions Treated by the Brain Care Program Team:

• Brain Tumors
  o Primary brain tumors
  o Metastatic brain tumors
  o Pituitary tumors
  o Low- and high-grade gliomas
  o Glioblastoma multiforme
  o Intracranial metastasis
  o Meningioma
  o Spinal metastasis
  o Intramedullary tumors
  o Astrocytoma brain tumors
  o Acoustic neuroma

• Vascular Brain Disorders
  o Arteriovenous malformations, also called cerebral arteriovenous malformations
  o Cavernoma, also called cerebral cavernous malformation
  o Arteriovenous fistula
  o Cerebral aneurysm, including berry aneurysm

•  Brain Injury
  o Brain Injury: 
  • Severe traumatic brain injury
  • Mild traumatic brain injury (symptoms of concussion)
  • Anoxic brain injury (oxygen deprivation)        

  o Cerebral hematoma

• Structural Brain Condition

 o Chiari malformations

• Hydrocephalus

Some patients who are first evaluated by the brain care program team will be referred to other Holy Cross Hospital services for consultation and further diagnosis. These may include:

• Epilepsy Center: Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, febrile seizures
• Stroke Center
• Spine Center Spinal tumors, spinal cord injury
• Nervous System Program: Trigeminal neuralgia, fibromyalgia