Neurointervention has fast found its way through treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Being less invasive and associated with less post-operative morbidity than the open surgical methods, it is of growing interest among neurologists and neurosurgeons around the world. Since the introduction of this field in Iran for almost a decade ago, many patients with neurologic problems have benefited fr...

afford this method of treatment. The lack of available endovascular expertise in many state and academic hospitals is related in part to the high costs related to these cases, but also to a lack of neurointerventional expertise within many academic and state institutions. Neither interventional radiology nor neurointervention is recognised locally as a subspeciality despite the availability of ...

Department of Radiology and Department of Neurosurgery, Kyunghee East-West Neo Medical Center, Kyunghee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Department of Radiology, Kyunghee University Medical Center, Kyunghee University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Received September 25, 2009; accepted after revision January 13, 2010. Correspondence to: Chang-Woo Ryu, MD, Department of Radiolo...

I heard on the news about the world's first stem cell medication. The news said that a cardiac stem cell therapy was expected to be approved for use at hospitals. The approval will be the first of its kind in the world to allow the use of this form of treatment. The nation's drug safety agency said that a stem cell medication for treating heart attack victims, passed all the required safety and...