• Provide Comprehensive and
    Technically Excellent
    Neurosurgical Care
    Provide Comprehensive and Technically Excellent Neurosurgical Care
  • Offer Patients
    The Most Upto Date
    Surgical Advances And
    Best Practice Medicine
    Offer Patients The Most Upto Date Surgical Advances And Best Practice Medicine
  • Compassionate and
    Timely Intervention in a
    Setting Respectful of
    Our patients needs
    Compassionate and Timely Intervention in a Setting Respectful of Our patients needs
  • Open Communication With
    Our patients Primary
    Care Providers
    Open Communication With Our patients Primary Care Providers

Extracranial to intracranial bypass surgery

Your brain receives blood through the right and left carotid arteries, which run through your neck and enter the skull to provide oxygen and nutrients. These arteries can become narrowed or occluded, reducing blood supply to the brain, and lead to stroke (death of brain tissue, producing weakness, speech impairment and paralysis).

Extracranial to intracranial (EC-IC) bypass surgery is performed to increase blood supply to the brain by surgically connecting the external carotid artery in your neck with the internal carotid artery inside your skull, thereby bypassing the area of blockage. This may be done by directly connecting the branches of the internal and external carotid arteries or using a vein graft taken from your leg.

EC-IC is indicated for the following reasons:

  • When both carotid arteries are blocked
  • You experience stroke symptoms despite medication
  • An artery needs to be blocked and bypassed to treat a large aneurysm (dilation of vessels)
  • To treat moyamoya disease (progressive narrowing of intracranial blood vessels)

 

Other Neurovascular Surgery Services

credibilty

  • University of Florida
  • The University of Western Australia
  • The University of Adelaide
  • Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
  • Royal Australasian College of Surgeons: RACS
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