The UCSF Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Center is the only center in the country offering comprehensive care by the world's leading experts in pediatric stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Cerebrovascular disease includes a large group of conditions in which the arteries in the brain, or those connected to the brain, are defective. These conditions are rare in children and generally not considered childhood ailments. But surprisingly, about 4,000 children in the United States have a stroke every year. Their treatment often requires the expertise of several specialists as well as advanced diagnostic and treatment approaches. Our team is capable of treating the most challenging and complex conditions.
UCSF — ranked the best hospital in the West in neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report — offers a team approach, bringing together experts in neurology, neurosurgery, hematology and diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology. The team includes a pediatric neurologist who is one of the few experts in the country with special training in childhood stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Complex cases are presented to the pediatric neurovascular team to recommend each patient's treatment plan.
We offer the following comprehensive services:
Comprehensive Evaluations — A pediatric neurologist, one of the few in the country with special training in pediatric cerebrovascular disease and stroke, provides new patients with an initial evaluation and coordinates diagnostic work-ups. Pediatric blood disorder specialists with expertise in thrombosis — or clotting that obstructs the flow of blood — evaluate children suspected of having an increased tendency to clot.
Advanced Diagnostic Tests — We offer the most advanced tests to diagnose conditions, including advanced neuro-imagining tests, with particular expertise in pediatric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and angiography in children. Pediatric anesthesiologists perform the sedation needed for pediatric imagining tests, enhancing the safety of the procedure.
Latest Treatments — Pediatric and vascular neurosurgeons offer state-of-the-art techniques, many not available at other medical centers, for the treatment of cerebrovascular disease, such as microsurgery and Gamma Knife radiosurgery. UCSF interventional neuroradiology experts pioneered the endovascular treatment of pediatric vascular malformations, such as Vein of Galen malformations. We also offer endovascular treatment for a variety of pediatric cerebrovascular diseases.
To make a donation online to the Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Center, visit https://makeagift.ucsf.edu/children, click on "Choose a designation," and select "Pediatric Stroke Research."
The Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Center is part of the UCSF Pediatric Brain Center, which brings together doctors from all disciplines related to brain health in children. We are passionate about collaborating with each other, our patients and their families to provide the best possible care for each child.
Our experts are world-class pediatric specialists in neurology, neurosurgery, neurocritical care, neurogenetics, neuro-oncology, rehabilitation, neuroradiology, neuropsychology and psychiatry. By working as a team we are able to reach the right diagnosis and treatment quickly, getting our patients on the road to recovery and bringing peace of mind to parents.
Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-3682
Fax: (415) 353-2400
Hours: Friday
9 a.m. to noon
Last updated April 30, 2012
Public parking for an hourly fee at UCSF Medical Center is available in the seven-level Millberry Union Garage at 500 Parnassus Ave. There are two garage entrances — one on the north side of Parnassus Avenue and another on Irving Street, just east of Third Avenue. The garage is open 24 hours daily.
Another garage, at 350 Parnassus Ave., is open Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Metered street parking is rarely available.
Patients being admitted to the hospital may be dropped off at the circular driveway leading to the main entrance at 505 Parnassus Ave. This area also may be used to pick up patients who are being discharged.
For more information about parking at Parnassus, call Campus Parking Services at 476-2566.
Valet parking service is available at the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) at 400 Parnassus Ave. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The valet service is free but patients must pay regular parking fees. For more information about the valet service, call (415) 476-6200.
A UCSF "greeter" also is available at the ACC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist patients find their way.
UCSF Medical Center is accessible via Muni streetcar line N-Judah*, which stops at Second Avenue and Irving Street, and the following Muni bus lines, which stop in front of the hospital:
Free UCSF shuttles travel between the Parnassus and Mount Zion campuses as well as other UCSF locations. For your convenience we have a Parnassus-Mount Zion Express Shuttle that leaves every 15 minutes.
The shuttle departs from Parnassus in front of the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library at 530 Parnassus Ave.
For more information about UCSF transportation, please call (415) 476-1511.
For more information about Muni visit, www.sfmuni.com.
* Wheelchair accessible bus routes
