bdnews24.com :
Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery.
Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the head in Bangladesh.
But three young doctors at Bangladesh’s lone medical university did the procedure on a 60-year-old woman using ‘coiling’ method, which is like an extension of angiogram.
The method is common even in India, but this has been used for the first time in Bangladesh.
The patient’s son told bdnews24.com his mother was recuperating in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in a statement said its assistant professor of neurology Dr Md Shahidullah Sabuj, consultants Dr Anis Ahmed and Dr Suvash Kanti Dey performed the two-hour long procedure on Tuesday.
The patient was suffering from a kind of stroke due to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
It is a type of stroke caused by bleeding in and around the brain. And the bleeding occurs due to rupture of a cerebral aneurysm – a balloon-like bag protrudes from an artery wall, causing it to thin and become weak.
The size increases as blood fills into it, raising the risk of bursting.
Sudden and very severe headache, being sick, seizures and loss of consciousness are the symptoms of the disease.
Conventionally, doctors open the bone in the head and
place a clip across the aneurysm where it rises from the blood vessel to prevent blood flow from entering into it.
But in coiling method they follow the angiogram procedure.
“It’s an extension of angiogram,” Dr Sabuj said.
“In angiogram doctors reach the heart through femoral artery (large artery in the thigh), but we go up to the brain through the same route,” he said.
He said, coils were being packed into the aneurysm to prevent blood from entering into it.
Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery.
Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the head in Bangladesh.
But three young doctors at Bangladesh’s lone medical university did the procedure on a 60-year-old woman using ‘coiling’ method, which is like an extension of angiogram.
The method is common even in India, but this has been used for the first time in Bangladesh.
The patient’s son told bdnews24.com his mother was recuperating in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in a statement said its assistant professor of neurology Dr Md Shahidullah Sabuj, consultants Dr Anis Ahmed and Dr Suvash Kanti Dey performed the two-hour long procedure on Tuesday.
The patient was suffering from a kind of stroke due to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.
It is a type of stroke caused by bleeding in and around the brain. And the bleeding occurs due to rupture of a cerebral aneurysm – a balloon-like bag protrudes from an artery wall, causing it to thin and become weak.
The size increases as blood fills into it, raising the risk of bursting.
Sudden and very severe headache, being sick, seizures and loss of consciousness are the symptoms of the disease.
Conventionally, doctors open the bone in the head and
place a clip across the aneurysm where it rises from the blood vessel to prevent blood flow from entering into it.
But in coiling method they follow the angiogram procedure.
“It’s an extension of angiogram,” Dr Sabuj said.
“In angiogram doctors reach the heart through femoral artery (large artery in the thigh), but we go up to the brain through the same route,” he said.
He said, coils were being packed into the aneurysm to prevent blood from entering into it.
