Thank you to all who joined and presented in the July 6th 2025 BANANAZ!! Excellent presentations and discussions. Recording of session here part of www.youtube.com/neuroangio library of all BANANAZ and more
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BANANAZ
Basic and Advanced Neurovascular ANAtomy Zoom — BANANAZ — is an online interactive meeting dedicated to neurovascular education. We are not a passive experience webinar. You can speak up, chat, and learn.
The format is a combination of lecture / presentation given by BANANAZ core or guest faculty, followed by discussion and embo club format case presentations. Anyone can submit cases for embo club — please email shapiro.maksim@gmail.com if you want to present. Cases should be 10-15 minutes long, to allow for discussion, which is really what this is about.
Past Events
2025
- July 6th — BANANAZ wide-range. Video Recording
- Krishna Amaluru — 2 ethmoid sinus fistulas not cured by surgery, with subsequent embo
- Boris Pabon — SEAL device update
- Safwan Roumia — Covered Stent for traumatic CC fistula
- Dodi Boccardi — upper cervical fistulas –epidural, dural, pial, piodural, epipial etc.
- Eytan Raz — Central Retinal Artery Occlusion — advanced imaging and Rx
- March 13-15 — BANANA ALICE — Directed by Prof. Rene Chapot, the ALICE course is a must for anyone serious about neurointervention. Featuring extremely complex and educational live cases and discussion. This year, BANANA was represented at ALICE with talks by Drs. Eytan Raz, Michihiro Tanaka, and Maksim Shapiro on basilar perforators and Cone Beam CT in preoperative evaluation/embolization of complex skull base lesions. Check out ALICE and its amazing and totally free case archives.
- February 23rd — BANANAZ Stroke — In-depth, broad discussion of medical and procedural aspects of medium and distal occlusion trials, lead by trial PIs and faculty. Whatever you do in stroke, you should listen to this. Video Recording
- Frédéric Clarencon
- Vladimir Gavrilovic
- Mahesh Jayaraman
- David Liebeskind
- Maxim Mokin
- Erez Nossek
- Marios Psychogios
- Shadi Yaghi
- February 2nd — Mix of cases. Video Recording
- Muralidharan Vetrivel – Tandem Occlusion and hemorrhagic complication
- Aiman Maidan — Cavernous dural fistula, recurrence and transvenous retreatment
- Sophia Janjua – Dural Fistula Labbe Direct Drainage
- Wei Ni — Embolization of refractory DAVFs in hybrid unit — multiple hybrid cases
- Rene Chapot — Falcotentorial Junction Fistula — 6D analysis and transvenous embolization
- Safwan Roumia — Suprasellar AVM Superior Hypophyseal and PCOM supply, transarterial and transvenous treatment
- Edoardo (Dodi) Boccardi — Ghosts of Flow Diversion — insights into covered branch healing
2024
- June 9th — BANANAZ AVM/dAVF — Discussion of complex shunts. Video Recording
- David Altschul
- Rene Chapot
- Hidetsugu Maekawa
- Eytan Raz
- Maksim Shapiro
- April 6th — BANANAZ Ukraine — Discussion of highly complex cases performed during Ukraine RAZOM Co-Pilot Neuro Mission — how to do much more with much less. Video Recording
- Feb 25th — BANANAZ — Fantastic session with great cases and discussion. Video Recording
- Sabha Ahmed / Hima Pendharkar — Carotid RETE
- Vittorio Civelli — Complex MCA aneurysm
- Nabeel Herial — Complex Basilar Fusiform Aneurysms
- Dodi Boccardi — Several Vein of Galen Adult Patients — Different Stories
- Rene Chapot — Venous Sinus Thrombosis Consequences — Revascularization / Stenting in Setting of post-thrombosis IH
2023
- BANANA BITE — Advanced Flow Diversion — Video Recording
- Advanced Flow Diversion Discussion / Presentations by leading world faculty — especially important discussion of multiple Pipeline Embolization Device and flow diversion aspects
- Edoardo Boccardi
- Breehan Chancellor
- Rene Chapot
- Peter Kim Nelson
- Erez Nossek
- Eytan Raz
- Howard Riina
- Isil Saatci
- Daniel Sahlein
- Maksim Shapiro
- Adnan Siddiqui
- John Wainwright
- September 10th — BANANAZ Ukraine. Management of penetrating head and neck trauma. Video Recording
- Yuri Cherednichenko –Mechnikov Hospital, Dnipro, Ukraine
- Tareq Kass Hout — Chicago University, USA
- Melanie Walker — University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- Dodi Boccardi — Niguarda, Milano, Italy
- June 4th — embo club — Video Recording
- Luca Quilici — lumbosacral epidural fistula
- Mohamad Abdalkader — condylar osseous fistula
- Dodi Boccardi — spinal pial fistula
- Hima Pendkarkar — spinal AVM
- Feb 26th — embo club — Video Recording
- Drs. Michihiro Tanaka (spinal epidural fistula)
- Sophia Janjua (parasagittal convexity / SSS fistula)
- Dodi Boccardi (two direct CC fistulas 20 years apart, highlighting evolution of neurovascular treatments)
- Tibor Becske (dorsal wall/blister pseudoaneurysm Pipe / retrograde PCOM coil)
- and Guglielmo Pero (spinal micro avm / fistula).
- Truly fantastic discussions for all cases!
2021
- May 11th — embo club — no video — come and see
- April 13th — embo club — no video — come and see
- March 9th — Face Transplant and Delayed Aneurysmal SAH — Video Recording
- February 9th — Intracranial Hypotension / CSF Venous Fistula and more — Video Recording
- January 12th — ABC-WIN Val d’Isere in Honor of session — cases / discussion — Video Recording
2020
- December 8th — Orbit and Transorbital Interventions — Video Recording
- November 3rd — Falcotentorial Fistula — Video Recording
- October 6th — Craniocervical Junction Lecture and Embo Club — Video Recording
- September 1st — Spinal Vascular Anatomy Lecture and Embo Club — Video Recording
- August 4th — Practical Neurovascular Embryology Lecture and Embo Club — Video Recording
- July 7th — Virtual Embo Club / New Fellows Welcome Video Recording
- June 30th — Neurovascular Fellows Graduation Day Video Recording
- June 23rd — Virtual Embo Club
- June 16th — Venous Aspects of Neurovascular Disease Video Recording
- June 9th — Virtual Embo Club
- June 2nd — Posterior Fossa Veins Video Recording
- May 26th — Virtual Embo Club
- May 19th — Deep Venous System Video Recording
- May 12th — Virtual Embo Club
- May 5th — Cavernous Sinus Video Recording
- April 28th — Virtual Embo Club
- April 21st — Venous Sinuses Video Recording Group Chat Record
- April 14th — Virtual Embo Club
- April 7th — Superficial Venous System. Video Recording Group Chat Record
- March 31st — Virtual Embo Club Inaugural Meeting
BANANAZ BITES
Finally, we periodically release some narrated videos of cases with good anatomical or other learning points, available on www.youtube.com/neuroangio channel. Many more are found on the “Case Library” page
Questions, comments, feedback: email neuroangio@neuroangio.org
