ProMedica Toledo Hospital with The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences Offer Newly FDA Approved Treatment Device for Brain Aneurysms

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 3, 2019 - ProMedica Toledo Hospital and The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences (UTCoM) is pleased to offer a new cutting edge treatment for brain aneurysms, called the Woven EndoBridge (WEB) Aneurysm Embolization System. Recently gaining FDA approval, the WEB device is used to treat wide neck bifurcation aneurysms in certain areas of the brain.

A brain aneurysm is an abnormal bulging or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain called an artery. An estimated six million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm.

The device is made from ultra-fine wires braided together to form a flexible self-expanding mesh. When placed inside the aneurysm sac, the WEB device’s proprietary microbraid technology disrupts blood flow to treat challenging aneurysms that often require multiple implants with a single device. Additional benefits include:

• Avoids stent placement in the brain's arterial system.
• Provides an alternative therapy to open brain surgery for those previously unable to be treated minimally invasively.
• May reduce medication required post-procedure.

“This new device is a game changer for patients with complex brain aneurysms. Prior to this major advent in endovascular therapy, treatment was far more risky and difficult for those patients,” says Syed Zaidi, MD, Medical Director, Interventional Neurology Program, ProMedica Toledo Hospital. “Together with The University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo Hospital has become a leading site for aneurysm treatment.”

Since it’s launch in March, NeuroEndovasular Surgeons and assistant professors of neurology at UTCoM, Drs. Mouhammad Jumaa, Syed Zaidi and Richard Burgess, have performed six successful procedures with this device. Toledo Hospital is the first comprehensive stroke center to offer this new treatment modality in Northern Ohio and Michigan.

Watch Dr. Zaidi explain how the device works in the video below with WTOL:

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ProMedica is a mission-based, not-for-profit integrated healthcare organization headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It serves communities in 28 states. The organization offers acute and ambulatory care, an insurance company with a dental plan, and post-acute and academic business lines. The organization has more than 56,000 employees, 13 hospitals, 2,100+ physicians and advanced practice providers with privileges, 900+ healthcare providers employed by ProMedica Physicians, a health plan, and nearly 400 assisted living facilities, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, memory care communities, outpatient rehabilitation clinics, and hospice and home health care agencies. Driven by its Mission to improve your health and well-being, ProMedica has been nationally recognized for its advocacy programs and efforts to address social determinants of health. For more information about ProMedica, please visit www.promedica.org/aboutus.