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Posted by: Rusica Viorica
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31 July 2021 / 16:00
A surgery, performed for the first time at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Surgery for the first time at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery "Diomid Gherman" in our country. A 68-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Intracranial Aneurysm, a disease that affects vision, underwent surgery to install a device. Thanks to this new technique, the patient avoided the risks of a classic intervention, which involves opening the skull, informs Moldova 1.
Liubovi Colotico, 68, from Cahul district, presented to the local medical office with severe headaches, but also with decreased vision in his left eye. Following the investigations, the doctors recommended an emergency operation, as a rupture of the aneurysm could endanger her life.
"She did not see with her left eye. It looked good, but it made me dizzy and had a headache and I wasn't getting much sleep. The daughter came and said to me: my mother has to pass the check because I don't like that the eye has shrunk. I checked and they sent me to Chisinau," says the woman.
The new method of operation was guided by Professor Cristian Mihalea, a specialist in radiology and medical imaging, originally from Timisoara and with over a decade of experience at a clinic in France.
"Under an X-ray machine and we treat this minimally invasive aneurysm, which means that we exclude it from circulation by inserting a stand or platinum spirals and the beauty of the method is that the patient after the procedure, probalil at 3-4 days can go home, which in the case of open neurosurgery is much more complicated," says the doctor.
It is for the first time in the Republic of Moldova when such a technique is used.
"The equipment we use is used for the first time in Moldova. In principle, contemporary medicine comes to provide more individualized solutions per patient and this is one of the cases when medicine offers us individualized solutions or the patient has a giant aneurysm, which we do not see every day. We see such aneurysms of this size in two or three years," mentions Ion Preguza, neurosurgeon.
According to director Grigore Zapuhlîh, this method of intervention will be included in the list of operations that will be performed at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery "Diomid Gherman".
"If it were national statistics, we would have a few hundred aneurysms, among them that specialized type of implant flow diverter, there would be maybe a few, because this aneurysm is special, it is giant, it is very big and it is in one place hidden at the base of the skull is what we call this place and it is impossible to enter directly through the trepanation. That is why we have to do this intravascularly, which is much safer," says Grigore Zapuhlîh.
The device cost 181 thousand lei and is produced in the USA, and its payment was made entirely by the National Medical Insurance House. Abroad, such an intervention costs about 35-45 thousand euros.
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