Northwestern Medicine Stroke Care
Northwestern Medicine provides care for neurovascular conditions. This includes advanced diagnostic imaging, multimodal treatment and rehabilitation for patients with stroke and cerebrovascular disease.
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Leaders in neurology and neurosurgery
Northwestern Medicine is a leader in treating stroke with leading-edge technology, participation in the latest clinical trials, and highly trained physicians, nurses and therapists specializing in stroke.
Our experienced, multidisciplinary team* includes:
- Neurologists
- Neurosurgeons
- Neurointensivists
- Neuroradiologists
- Vascular surgeons
- Advanced practice nurses
- Rehabilitation therapists
Together, they provide comprehensive diagnosis and management of conditions including ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke and cerebrovascular conditions such as moyamoya disease.
Our integrated approach combines treatment of cerebrovascular and any secondary cardiovascular disease that may also be affecting the patient’s health and recovery.
Meet the Northwestern Medicine Stroke Teams
Awards and Acknowledgments
Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital are recognized as Comprehensive Stroke Centers, offering the most advanced levels of stroke treatment available. Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital have been awarded the Advanced Primary Stroke Center Certification by The Joint Commission. This certification recognizes that the services provided have the critical elements to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes. It is a signal to the community that the quality of care provided is effectively managed to meet the unique and specialized needs of the stroke patients.
Conditions
- Amaurosis Fugax
- Angioma
- Aphasia
- Arteriovenous Fistula (AVF)
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
- Before Stroke
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Bleed
- Carotid Artery Disease
- Carotid-cavernous Fistula (CCF)
- Cavernoma
- Cavernous Malformations
- CCM
- Cerebral Aneurysm
- Cerebral Embolism
- Cerebral Thrombosis
- Cerebral Vascular Disorders
- Dural Arteriovenous Fistula (DAVF)
- Fibromuscular Dysplasia
- Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
- Hemifacial Spasm
- Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH)
- Intracranial Hemorrhage
- Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage (IPH)
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH)
- Ischemic Stroke
- Life After Stroke
- Microvascular Decompression
- Moyamoya Disease
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO)
- Spinal Arteriovenous Fistula
- Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation
- Spinal Vascular Malformation
- Stroke
- Stroke-Induced Sleep Disorders
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Transient Ischemic Attacks
- Vascular Dementia
- Vascular Malformations of the Brain
- Vasculitis
Treatments
- Aneurysm Coiling
- AVM/AVF/DAVF embolization
- Bypass Surgery
- Bypass surgery/Moyamoya
- Carotid Dissection
- Carotid Endarterectomy
- Carotid Stenosis
- Carotid Stents
- Central Retina Artery Occlusion (CRAO)
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Direct/Indirect Bypass
- EC-IC Bypass
- Embolization
- Encephalo-duro-arterio-myo-synangiosis/EDAMS
- Encephalo-duro-arterio-synangiosios/EDAS
- Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology
- Interventional Neuroradiology
- Intracranial Angioplasty
- Intracranial Atherosclerosis
- Intracranial Stenosis
- Intracranial Stenting
- Microvascular Decompression
- Neurocritical Care
- Neurological Rehabilitation
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Other Arterial Dissection
- Thrombectomy
- Vertebral Dissection
- Vertebral Stenosis
- Vertebral Stents
- Downtown (AMC)
- Northern Suburbs
- Western Suburbs
- Northwest Suburbs
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Top 10 in Neurology & Neurosurgery (8th)
Related Resources
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Certified Comprehensive Stroke Centers must meet the performance measurement requirements for Primary Stroke Centers which includes data collection for the eight Joint Commission stroke (STK) measures.
More details on these measures can be found on the Joint Commission website.
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
- Stroke Education for You and Your Family: English | Spanish
- After a Stroke: A Guide for Caregivers English | Spanish
- Going Home: A Guide for Stroke Patients English | Spanish
- Central DuPage Hospital Comprehensive Stroke and Neurovascular Program Outcomes 2016
- Stroke Community Education at Central DuPage Hospital and Delnor Hospital
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In the spirit of keeping you well-informed, the physician(s) identified are neither agents nor employees of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare or any of its affiliate organizations. They have selected our facilities as places where they want to treat and care for their private patients.