Dr. Alejandro Berenstein: “Aspiring Singer with Tangled Tongue gets Career-saving Surgery at Mount Sinai”
Jenna Goerke wants to sing for a living, but she had what could be a career-ending problem with her tongue -- an artery and vein tangle called an AVM that makes it harder to even talk. When the AVM started bleeding recently neurologist Alejandro Berenstein, MD, director of the pediatric cerebrovascular program for the Mount Sinai Health System, did a procedure he pioneered, snaking a catheter through her groin up an artery to find and plug the leaking blood using a sort of glue. Thanks to Mount Sinai's surgical team, Goerke can now sing herself all the way to Broadway. Read More