Combined treatment of cerebral arteriovenous malformations. Experience of the Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute.

Objective: Despite the achievements of recent years, cerebral AVMs continue to pose a challenge to treatment. The objective of this work was the development of recommendations for combined treatment of AVMs based on analysis of the available material and published data.

Material And Methods: The study included 93 patients hospitalized at the Neurosurgical Institute for combined treatment of cerebral AVMs in 2010-2014.

Intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence angiography in surgery of brain aneurysms. The first experience with using the technique and literature review.

Intraoperative blood flow assessment after aneurysm clipping has become a standard procedure in vascular neurosurgery worldwide. Intraoperative indacyanine green angiography (ICG) has recently been certified in Russia. Fifteen patients with aneurysms operated with ICG control in Burdenko NSI are described in present publication.

Working results of the electronic "on-line" version of the Spine Registry for Degenerative Lumbar Spine Diseases and study of its synchronization capacity with the electronic case history.

Aim: To assess the results of use of lumbar spine on-line registry in 2012 (IV quarter).

Material And Methods: The Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RAMS) and the System Analysis Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have developed an electronic "on-line" portal of the Spine Registry for Degenerative Lumbar Spine Diseases. The data on 1295 retrospective and 145 prospective patients who underwent treatment in Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute, the "AXIS" clinic, Medical Centre of the Bank of Russia, "Marina Spine Clinic" LA, USA and in the Neurosurgery department of Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Nizhny Novgorod were analyzed.