Complex Neuro-Vascular Aneurysm Surgery Performed at Ivy

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Chandigarh 18^th January:- A woman has successfully operated upon a rare neuro vascular aneurysm surgery at Ivy Hospital, Mohali recently. Sarda Devi was presented to Ivy with complaints of headache followed by loss of consciousness. The CT angiography of brain revealed a M2-M3 junction aneurysm on right middle cerebral artery. She was successfully operated by Dr. Vineet Saggar, Senior Consultant, Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery and was discharged without any deficit after 7 days. 

Giving details of surgery, Dr. Vineet Saggar said that it was a rare case of distal middle cerebral artery aneurysm (MCA) occurring at junction of M2-M3 junction of right middle cerebral artery. The brain surgery is itself considered very techie ally demanding and out of all neurosurgical procedures. Aneurysm surgery is, in fact, considered most demanding and complex surgery, maintained Dr. Vineet Saggar who has performed numerous such complex aneurysm surgeries besides clipping multiple such aneurysms in one single patient. 

He further elaborated that intracranial aneurysm are balloon like dilatation of intracranial arteries supplying the brain. They occur in around 2% of population. Most of this aneurysm is diagnosed when they burst or rupture causing bleeding inside the brain. Depending upon the extent of bleeding patient can have symptoms ranging from severe headache to loss of consciousness, coma and sometimes even death of the patient .Intracranial aneurysm is be treated by applying a clip over the neck of balloon like dildilatation over the vessels.

Dr. Kanwaldeep Kaur, Medical Director, Ivy Hospital, Mohali said that normally these aneurysms occur on the branching points of the major arteries in the brain but sometimes occur at the distal branching points of these major arteries. This distal aneurysm poses difficulties in treatment because they are embedded in the brain substance. Moreover these distal branching arteries are very delicate i.e. 1-2 mm in diameter, and require careful handling to prevent occlusion of these vessels.