Green Pon Hospital (Hanoi) has successfully applied the technique of cerebral artery embolization to control bleeding during brain tumor surgery for a 52-year-old patient.
The bleeding control procedure took place within 90 minutes to prevent certain blood vessels that nourish the tumor in the patient’s brain prior to surgery.
The doctors performed the bleeding control in the brain by inserting a catheter from the femoral artery up to the cerebral artery to embolize several blood vessels.
This is a new technique implemented with the assistance of Siemens. The patient, Nguyen Thi H, 52 years old, resides in Dong Da District, Hanoi.
The team of doctors at the hospital, led by Master Bui Manh Giang, Head of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging, safely conducted the embolization technique to control bleeding before the brain tumor surgery for patient H.
Afterward, the neurosurgery team at the hospital performed a complete resection of the patient’s brain tumor within 3 hours, successfully and safely.
The tumor located in the meninges of patient H was large (9 x 6 x 11 centimeters), resulting in a significant number of blood vessels feeding the tumor, making the resection surgery prone to excessive bleeding.
Therefore, without utilizing this method for pre-operative bleeding control for large brain tumors, the resection could easily cause bleeding complications, posing a risk to the patient’s life on the operating table.
This method also reduced the time the patient had to lie on the operating table by 6 hours, decreasing the risk of complications for the patient.
Ngoc Lan
