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Obtura - a Revolutionary Embolic Lava-like Agent With Rapidly Disappearing Radiopacity for Easier Combined Embolization and Gamma Knife Treatment

  • Toronto Western Hospital 399 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON, M5T 2S6 Canada (map)

Speaker: Dr. Alberto Gil

Moderator: Dr. Pascal Mosimann

Dr. Alberto Gil, M.D., is an interventional neuroradiologist at the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Spain. After completing his M.D. and radiology training in Madrid, Spain, Dr. Gil joined the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias as an interventional neuroradiologist, where he established their interventional neuroradiology centre. During his tenure from 2009 to 2012 at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid, he co-founded and led their INR centre, the first 24/7 stroke treatment centre in Madrid.

Dr. Gil is an accomplished expert in various intracranial vascular pathologies, specializing in the treatment of complex AVMs and aneurysms. Since 2003, he has performed over 1000 thrombectomies, and has treated more than 400 aneurysms and 100 brain AVMs.

Earlier Event: January 25
The Value of 6D Angiography to Understand Brain AVMs and Potential of Curative Combined Transvenous Embolization and Microsurgery
Later Event: February 1
A Fishy Case of Progressive Ataxia in an Elderly Woman