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Cavernous Malformation Center
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When facing a cavernous malformation diagnosis, you need a team with expansive expertise to create an individualized care and treatment plan.
Our Approach to Cavernous Malformation
Our team is made up of neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists, geneticists and nurses specializing in the treatment of cavernous malformations in both children and adults. We have nationally known specialists that are principle investigators of peer-reviewed, published CCM clinical research.
What is cerebral cavernous malformation?
A cerebral cavernous malformation, also known as a cerebral cavernous angioma or cavernoma, is a raspberry-shaped collection of abnormal blood vessels with thin, leaky walls, most often found in the brain and the spinal cord.
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Our Cavernous Malformation Center
Baptist Health has Northeast Florida's only program to be recognized as a designated Clinical Center by the Angioma Alliance. This means we meet or exceed local and national standards of medical care and cavernous malformation-specific care.
Pediatric Center
If you're searching for a team with expansive expertise that will create an individualized care and treatment plan for your child, you've found the right place. The Cerebral Cavernous Malformations Clinical Center at Wolfson Children's brings together experts from different medical specialties as one team to care for cerebral cavernous malformations in children.
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Cavernous Malformation Team
If you're searching for a team with expansive expertise that will create an individualized care and treatment plan, you've found the right place. Meet the program co-medical directors:
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Ricardo Hanel, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
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Philipp Aldana, MD
Pediatric Neurosurgeon
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