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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

  • 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