A team of surgeons from various medical specialties, including neurology, neurosurgery, critical care, and ICU, successfully performed 25 Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgeries in just 24 days, with two procedures conducted on the same day. Dr. Dhanunjaya Rao Ginjupally, a senior neurosurgeon at Apollo Hospital who led the procedures, highlighted that performing DBS under general anesthesia eliminates the discomfort associated with awake surgeries while maintaining accuracy comparable to frame-based techniques using microelectrode recording.
In a 54-year-old woman patient, the neurosurgeons removed the brain tumour through a small, carefully made path around the eye using a neuro-endoscope.
SanFrancisco: A new study has suggested that subtle changes in the structure and the diastolic function of a person’s heart between early adulthood and middle age may be associated with a decline in thinking and memory skills. The research was published in the online issue of ‘Neurology’, the medical journal of the American Academy of […]