Complex brain surgery performed on 11-year-old boy at Narayana Hospital

The doctors astatine Narayana Hospital, Tirupati, successfully performed a uncommon and analyzable encephalon country connected a 11-year-old lad from Vijayawada, suffering from Rasmussen’s Encephalitis, a uncommon and terrible neurological disorder.

Addressing the media astatine the infirmary present connected Saturday, Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon Dr. N.A. Saikiran said that the patient, Revanth, had been experiencing 10 to 20 epileptic seizures per time owed to Rasmussen’s Encephalitis.

To dainty the condition, an precocious surgical process known arsenic Vertical Hemispherectomy was performed, successful which the affected information of the encephalon is functionally disconnected to forestall the dispersed of seizures, helium said. Post-surgery, the kid has been recovering well, helium added.

Head of the Department of Neurology Dr. N.S. Sampath Kumar said, “Epilepsy surgeries are being successfully performed astatine the infirmary owed to the combined efforts of neurology, neurosurgery and anaesthesia teams, supported by precocious instrumentality and modern attraction protocols.

He further said that these high-cost surgeries were being provided escaped of outgo nether insurance, EHS, and Aarogyasri schemes, with the enactment of infirmary absorption and the government. Patients were coming not lone from crossed the State but besides from neighbouring States for treatment, helium added.