Post operative photo showing well healed incision
Date: 05/05/2011

Doctors at CMCH claim rare brain surgery

Doctors at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Ludhiana claimed to have performed a complex brain aneurysm surgery on a 40-year-old patient, Tarlochan.
Aneurysm leads to brain hemorrhage, which most of the time lead to death. Most of the patients die because of delay in diagnosis and treatment.

Tarlochan was diagnosed with aneurysm at the department of neurosurgery at CMCH. He was investigated with a 64 slice (non-invasive) CT angiogram and found to have two aneurysms. He had a ruptured left DACA (Distal Anterior Cerebral Artery) aneurysm and an un-ruptured right MCA (Middle Cerebral Artery) bifurcation aneurysm. Normally, he would have required two operations. First, emergency clipping of ruptured left DACA aneurysm followed by clipping of un-ruptured right MCA bifurcation aneurysm.

However, in a rare feat, a team of neurosurgeons comprising Dr Sarvpreet Singh Grewal (department head) and Dr Sukhdeep Singh Jhawar (assistant professor of neurosurgery) performed the surgery in a single operation. The patient was discharged after 10 days.