Patient Stories
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Today, Kevin—KC to his friends—can play piano and speak again.
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When Carly Hirschberg went to see Dr. Feldstein about her Chiari malformation, she ended up with more than she ever imagined: a symptom-free life and a start on the path to practicing medicine.
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Kevin Chambers Steedle is a young musician who suffered a life-threatening bleed in his brain. Now Kevin has given his doctors an honor about which few neurosurgeons can boast: He thanked them in the liner notes of his latest CD.
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We in the Department of Neurosurgery are delighted to share a new honorific recently bestowed on Dr. Feldstein: Captain America.
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Parkinson disease is a progressive disorder. That means it’s a disease that usually begins with mild symptoms—a slight tremor, or a little trouble with balance—but can progress over time to more serious problems with motion, walking and even speech impairment.
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With the 2018 Winter Olympics underway in South Korea, we thought, what better time to put Josephine Pucci's story front and center once again.
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After a series of tests, Anne learned she had an aneurysm on an artery near her brain. Further examination revealed that the aneurysm would be risky to treat because it had an unusual shape.
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When Nicole Ricci was in her mid-20s, she got the worst headache of her life. The source of the problem was a tangle of blood vessels in Nicole’s brain, known as an arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
