Allina News

[Star Tribune, Jan. 30, 2012] As physicians, nurses and technicians looked on, Dr. Benjamin Crandall and Dr. Josser Delgado gingerly inserted a catheter into an artery in the leg of a 55-year-old woman. To guide them, the neuroradiologists watched their progress on several screens showing multiple images of the blood vessels in her brain. It [...]

[KARE-TV, November 25, 2011] Toni Almstedt, 64, of Two Harbors, Minn., is one of the first patients at Abbott Northwestern Hospital to be treated with a new device designed specifically for the treatment of giant brain aneurysms.  Abbott Northwestern is the first Twin Cities hospital and one of only two centers in Minnesota where physicians perform this procedure. Watch her story on [...]

[KSTP & KARE11, Aug. 11, 2011] School is not yet in session but some St. Paul student athletes took a test Thursday. The test wasn’t about their grades but about their safety after a concussion. Cretin-Derham Hall along with Allina Hospitals (what you should know about concussions in sports) and a grant from Abbott Northwestern [...]

[Brainerd Dispatch, May 25, 2011] Stroke can lead to death, but that doesn’t mean it has to. During May, Cuyuna Regional Medical Center has been working to promote awareness about the risk factors, symptoms and prevention of stroke. The CRMC stroke team hopes that increased public awareness will help reduce current stroke statistics. Paula Heinonen, [...]

[Fox 9 News, April 19, 2011] It’s a disease that destroys the mind and is difficult for families to cope with, but for the first time in 27 years, there may be some new information surfacing about Alzheimer’s disease. New guidelines have been released for diagnosing the disease, and doctors are saying that it can [...]

[KARE11, April 7, 2011] Strokes are usually associated with older people, but doctors are seeing more of them in younger people. At Allina’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Dr. Murali Krishnamurthy says he’s seeing growing numbers of strokes in teens. Watch the story below.

[River Falls Journal, January 13, 2011] Stroke care experts at United Hospital in St. Paul will soon be accessible, 24-hours a day, to patients at River Falls Area Hospital via the Allina Telehealth Network. For patients experiencing a stroke, rapid access to therapy that can restore cerebral blood flow improves the likelihood of a successful outcome. [...]

[KSTP-TV, January 9, 2011] As Americans learn more about the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a public meeting in Tucson, Arizona Saturday there are questions about how someone could survive a bullet passing through their brain. Six others died in the shooting. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS talked to local Neurosurgeon, Dr. Gregg Dyste about [...]

[WCCO-TV, July 9, 2010] As many as one in five of us will develop brain aneurysms in our lifetimes. A Minnesota company has come up with an innovative way to treat the trickiest of cases. See one patient’s story who was treated by Abbott Northwestern’s interventional neuroradiologist Jeff Crandall, MD, at wcco.com.

[Star Tribune, June 6, 2010] Last summer, Barbara Grangaard developed a slight tremor in her right hand and went in for an MRI scan. The results were a surprise. The test didn’t detect any problem related to the tremor, but it did reveal an aneurysm, a bubble protruding from a blood vessel in her brain. [...]