TIL Desk Lucknow/ Continuing the long string of breakthroughs and performing successful complex surgeries, Apollomedics Superspeciality Hospital, through a 48-hour surgical procedure, saved the life of a female sketch artist. In this surgery, she not only got her eyesight back, but was also cured of her brain aneurysm. This brain aneurysm would have proven life threatening to her if it was not treated in time.
CEO & MD, Apollomedics Superspeciality Hospital, Dr. Mayank Somani, said, “The brain aneurysm developed in the patient’s brain could have burst at any time, proving fatal for her. The entire complex surgery involved 50 doctors and paramedics and took about 48 hours. The entire team worked tirelessly and committed themselves to save the patient’s life. Due to the in-house team of superspecialist doctors at Apollomedics Hospital, we are able to handle such complex surgeries and make quick decisions without wasting any crucial time .Our team is continuously living up to its objective and people’s expectations, it is a very proud moment for our entire team. Our superspecialized doctors and paramedical staff here has consistently proven that we are the best at meeting medical challenges.”
“This is a one of a kind case in which the blood flow to the patient’s body has been stopped for neurosurgery and his body is (in a way) brought to a dead state. Earlier a surgery this complex would have only been possible in big cities like Delhi or Mumbai. But with Apollomedic’s state of the art technologies, such surgeries are possible in Lucknow too. We are sure that such successful complex surgeries will keep happening in our hospital.” he added.
Senior Consultant Neurosurgery, Apollomedics Hospital, and the head of the team that performed this complex surgery, Dr Sunil Kumar Singh, said, “The patient came to the hospital with no eyesight in both the eyes. When she was examined, it was found that a large aneurysm had developed in the brain, which was compressing the nerves in his eye, causing loss of vision. The aneurysm needed to be clipped on both sides to stop the blood supply to it. With stopped blood supply, the aneurysm would have collapsed on itself. So our team clipped the aneurysm from both sides, but the blood flow did not stop, as the bunch was so big, it was impossible to clip the artery which was supplying blood to it.
After this, the case was discussed with Senior CTVS Surgeon of Apollomedics Hospital Dr. Bharat Dubey and his team. After thorough examination, he decided to completely stop the blood flow to the patient in order to clip the artery that was supplying blood to the aneurysm.
Dr Bharat Dubey said, “The patient’s body was brought to a state of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest to stop the flow of blood, after which all the blood was removed from the body. Blood was supplied to the patient’s heart and lungs through a heart and lung machine. Under normal circumstances, this would have resulted in death of the patient, but in this case it was done to save the life of the patient.”
Consultant Neurosurgery, Dr Prarthana Saxena, said Apollomedics, “After bringing the patient to this stage, the doctors had only 30-35 minutes to normalize the blood flow before it caused any brain damage. The team was successful and the artery supplying blood to the aneurysm was clipped. After this, the blood flow was slowly brought back to normalcy in the patient’s body.” The patient is improving after surgery and is under follow-up.
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