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Surgeons at Kamineni Hospitals successfully perform complex awake Craniotomy surgery

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Kamineni Hospital

Hyderabad, 29 July 2022: Surgeons at Kamineni Hospitals, Hyderabad, successfully performed Awake brain surgery on Venkanna, a 59-year-old farmer, hailing from Mansurabad, Telangana district. He has come to the hospital with a complaint of left upper limb weakness for 3 months. After clinical investigations, surgeons found a motor area lesion and after performing an MRI they came to the conclusion that the patient requires a high-end and complex awake craniotomy procedure for complete excision of the lesion.

A sort of procedure on the brain that is carried out while you are awake and conscious is referred to as awake brain surgery or awake craniotomy. Some brain (neurological) diseases, such as some brain tumors or epileptic seizures, are treated via awake brain surgery.

“Awake craniotomy is a type of craniotomy that allows neurosurgeons to remove tumors in important I.e, eloquent areas of the brain. In eloquent areas, any small damage to brain parenchyma will lead to devastating consequences like the loss of motor function or speech function according to areas involved motor or speech area respectively,” said Dr.Ramesh, Senior Neuro Surgeon, Kamineni Hospitals – LB Nagar, Hyderabad.

He further added Awake craniotomy is useful in tumor surgery, epilepsy surgery, and deep brain stimulation. It’s Hercules’s task for an anesthetist to maintain no pain (analgesia) without sedation (anesthesia.). In this case, the major complications are seizures which are sometimes so serious will require abandoning the procedure. After thorough evaluation and consent, he underwent awake craniotomy, excision of the lesion in the right motor area using Neuronavigation, and intra-op nerve monitoring. The patient had seizures in the opening skull which were managed with ice-cold saline. Once seizures decreased, the procedure and near total removal were done, he concluded.

An experienced team of surgeons, and anesthetists, with world-class equipment of NeuroNavigation, a High-end microscope helped the patient to undergo awake craniotomy and near total excision of the lesion.

Dr. Ramesh, Senior Neuro Surgeon, Dr. Rajeshwar, Chief Anaesthesist, along with Dr. Lakshmi Priyanka and the Nursing team participated in the surgery.

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