Patient Stories

Edwin Gonzalez, high school basketball coach, was brought down first by a ruptured aneurysm that caused a stroke, then by related hydrocephalus. Thanks to Dr. Ning Lin and the teams at both NYP Queens and the upper east side main campus, Ed pulled...
As she headed into her final few weeks of high school, Karina Escalante was at the top of her game: An honor student and two-sport athlete, she’d been accepted into college and was cruising easily toward graduation. There was no reason to think that...
 A stay-at-home mom is stricken when an aneurysm she never knew she had suddenly ruptures. Thanks to Dr. Ning Lin and the neurosurgery team at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell, she is back home with her husband and...

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