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The Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, has been capable to supply alleviation to much than 100 patients suffering from encephalon aneurysms utilizing travel diverter attraction successful caller years.
According to doctors, encephalon aneurysm is simply a information that affects the humor vessels successful the encephalon and tin pb to bleeding and stroke. An aneurysm refers to the bulges that signifier successful humor vessels owed to weakness successful the vas walls.
Sources successful the Department of Interventional Radiology said connected Sunday (June 7) that coiling and travel diverter attraction are the 2 types of endovascular procedures performed to cure this condition. They are done without opening the skull. A catheter is inserted done a tiny spread successful the humor vas successful the limb and guided to the humor vessels successful the brain. A travel diverter is simply a stent-like instrumentality placed successful the humor vas affected by an aneurysm to reconstruct mean humor flow.
K.G. Sajeeth Kumar, Principal, said that the Kozhikode MCH had performed the second-highest fig of travel diverter treatments successful the State, aft Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology successful Thiruvananthapuram. The infirmary has besides successfully treated implicit 250 patients with coiling treatment.
The aneurysm attraction is carried retired nether the coordination of Dr. Sajeeth Kumar, N.J. John, Head of Radiology department; K.R. Rahul, interventional radiologist; Binu Sajid, Head of Anaesthesia department, Jacob George, Head of Neurology department, Shaju Mathew, Head of Neurosurgery department, and P. Geetha, Head of General Medicine department.
