Odisha: Shanti Memorial Doctors Treat 23-Year-Old Woman Of Rare Brain Aneurysm

Bhubaneswar: A team of doctors of Shanti Memorial Hospital successfully treated a 23-year-old woman of rare brain aneurysm.

According to the hospital’s doctors, the patient had sudden severe headache and collapsed on the floor. She was rushed to Shanti Hospital where the doctors carried out necessary investigations and found a very large ruptured brain aneurysm measuring 22 mm in the mid brain.

This is a life threatening condition and needed immediate attention, said the team of doctors. The team headed by Dr Sibasankar Dalai and including Dr Sreejoy Patnaik, Dr. Rekha Das, Dr Avijit Prusty, Dr P Nath and Dr Priya Tripathy conducted the emergency aneurysm coiling.

A successful coiling of the ruptured 22 mm aneurysm was done over several hours by the team of experts and a precious young life is saved.

What is Aneurysm?

Aneurysm in the brain is a complex neurovascular disease with deadly consequences once they bleed. Bleeding of brain aneurysm causes serious brain haemorrhage called Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH) 30% of patient experiencing aneurysmal SAH could actually never reach a hospital, as they die of the first bleed of the aneurysm. Hence, a brain aneurysm is called a “Bomb in the Brain”.

Treatment of brain aneurysm involves opening the brain, finding the aneurysm and clipping it. Clipping a brain aneurysm is often complicated and involves serious repercussions. Hence, medical science has moved in the direction of minimally invasive treatment of brain aneurysm called “coiling of brain aneurysm”.

Coiling of brain aneurysm is done through a single puncture in the leg blood vessel. The coiling operation is the most modern way to treat brain aneurysm and this is done without opening the skull. This has high success rate and least compilation.