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.
Published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, the study revealed that the elevated risk remains significant even after considering other factors like genetics, lifestyle, and socioeconomics.
Hyderabad: The Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Secunderabad on Tuesday launched Quicktome, a digital brain mapping platform that provides neurosurgeons with detailed 3D model of the brain and its blood vessels, and helps them to precisely plan the surgery. Developed by Australia-based brain mapping software company Ominiscient Neurotechnology, the platform uses advanced mathematical algorithms […]
Hyderabad: The neuro team of Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad have successfully treated a 42-year-patient Mallesham, hailing from Medipally mandal, Karimnagar, who was suffering from a very rare medical condition known as Takayasu’s arteritis. Senior interventional radiologist, Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad, Dr Suresh Giragani said Takayasu’s arteritis is a rare type of vasculitis, a group of disorders that […]
Warangal Urban: Outpatient services at the 150-bed superspeciality hospital on the Kakatiya Medical College campus began on Friday. The hospital was constructed at a cost of Rs 150 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). According to officials, OP services in the departments of Urology, Nephrology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics have commenced for the benefit […]
