Bhubaneswar: In a very rare surgery, neurosurgeons of the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, here successfully operated a complicated case of giant aneurysm in a youth recently.
The 18-year-old patient, Subhasis Rout, complained of severe headache for about a month and scanning of the brain revealed bleeding inside. Brain angio showed a large blister in the posterior cerebral artery, a condition known as giant PCA aneurysm, said neurosurgeon Dr Atmaranjan Dash, who led the surgical team.
This is a very rare condition and less than 30 such cases have been successfully operated in the world till now, he said adding that if not treated properly, it could lead to death.
Dr Dash and his team undertook the 8-hour surgery and the patient was able to walk the next day. After a week, he was able to talk normally and was discharged from the hospital.
The team included neurosurgeon Dr Satyabhushan Senapati and Dr Abhijit Acharya while the anesthesia team comprised Dr Sudeep Mahapatra and Dr Sikha. Lalitnarayan Sahu and Bijay also assisted in the surgery.
The team had successfully performed another extremely challenging surgery on a 28-year-old man who suffered from the extremely complicated disease of Brainstem Cavernoma and Myoclonic Epilepsy recently.
