Department of Interventional Neurology

Interventional Neurology is a subspecialty of Neurology for minimally-invasive treatment of diseases of arteries and veins of the brain and spine. The specialty was born in extensive collaboration with other medical specialties such as interventional neuroradiologists, endovascular neurosurgeons and vascular neurologists.

Dr. Alex Abou-Chebl, Director of Interventional Neurology, is one of fewer than 15 interventional neurologists in the country.

As an interventional neurologist, Dr. Abou-Chebl has the ability to treat patients after the three-hour treatment window has passed. Using the most advanced technology at University Hospital's Stroke Center, Dr. Abou-Chebl identifies qualified patients whose strokes can be reversed!

If a patient qualifies, Dr. Abou-Chebl can use a number of different devices to go into the brain's vessels and remove, break-up or pull out the blood clot causing the stroke, thus saving patients from the debilitating affects of stroke.

Under Dr. Abou-Chebl's direction of the Department of Interventional Neurology, patients in Kentucky have access to the latest available treatments in stroke care at University Hospital’s Stroke Center—right here in Louisville!

In March 2007, he became the first physician in the state of Kentucky (and only one of a handful of physicians nationwide) to use a recently FDA approved device that sucks clots out through a microcatheter with a microwire that acts as a plunger, also break up the blood clot.

In Dr. Abou-Chebl’s hands, this equipment can help save lives and allow patients to return to their normal lives.