A private hospital here has achieved a rare feat when a team of doctors, headed by a neurosurgeon, successfully performedd craniotomy, a first of its kind in the district to remove brain tumour on a 23-year-old man and give him fresh lease of life.
When patients preferred peripheral and corporate hospitals for this kind of complicated surgeries, M. Senthil Vadivelan, a driver from Ariyankottai village near Paramakudi opted to undergo the surgery here and the hospital best utilised the advanced technologies and equipment at the operation theatre to remove the tumour.
Ganesh Kumar, neurosurgeon from Velammal Medical College and Research Institute; Malai Arasu, neurologist, and Ravi Prasad, Anaesthetist, constituted the team which performed the four- and-a-half-hour long surgery. They removed Glioma at the right frontal lobe of the brain at Vel Hospital here.
“It was a complicated surgery but we took the risk and successfully removed the glioma,” Dr. Malai Arasu said. No complications were encountered during the surgery and in the post-operative period, he said adding the surgery was done on April 27 and the patient was likely to be discharged in the next few days. The patient was on normal diet, he said.
Vadivelan, who was employed as driver in Riyadh had the symptom of the tumour when he developed seizures while driving four months ago. After returning home and before getting admitted, he had four episodes of seizures, doctors said. As Glioma was the malignant tumour, specimens were sent for biopsy, they said. The patient would be treated further based on the biopsy results, they added.