Lucknow, Sep 11: A woman underwent a massive and complex 48-hour surgery to cure her of brain aneurysm. Doctors at Lucknow’s Apollomedics Hospital successfully performed the surgery.
Brain aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain.
MD and CEO, Apollomedics Super speciality Hospital, Dr. Mayank Somani said: “We saved the life of a woman who is a sketch artiste. She was not only cured of her life-threatening condition but also got her eyesight back.”
The 40-year-old woman was admitted to emergency with loss of vision and altered sensory faculties.
Senior Consultant of Neurosurgery at Apollomedics Hospital, Dr. Sunil Kumar Singh said: “The patient came to the hospital with no eyesight.”
The brain aneurysm exceeding a little over the size of a golf ball, had developed in the base of patient’s brain and was about to burst any minute, leading to excessive bleeding in the brain, which would have been a life-threatening condition.
“The surgery involved 50 doctors and paramedics and took about 48 hours. The entire team worked tirelessly and committed themselves to saving the patient’s life,” said Dr. Somani. (IANS)