Surgeons used radical brain tumour technology to remove bullet fragments from Jesus Barrios's head. Picture: AAP Source: AAP
A MAN who was shot twice in the head will return to normal life after surgeons used brain tumour technology to remove fragments from his brain.
The New York Daily News reported Jesus Barrios,� 29, faced a future of seizures, infection, and vision loss after he was shot twice in the head.
One bullet passed through his skill leaving staple-size fragments scattered through his brain.
Normally doctors would consider it too risky to remove the fragments but Dr Narayan Sundaresan, chief neurosurgeon at Lincoln Hospital decided to give it a try.
Two months after the surgery Mr Barrios is about to return to work.
"I'm great," he told the New York Daily News. "I only have a little pain; I still have one fragment in my jaw.
"My vision is getting better. My boy is 6 years old ... I didn't know if I would ever see him again."
The technology called the ViewSite Brain Access System looks like a tube attached to a computer.
"You look through it with endoscope, it's married to a computer that guides the passage so you can see into the depths, it shows us which direction to take," Dr Sundaresan said.
Vycor Medical Inc., the company that makes the ViewSite Brain Access System hadn't envisioned it could be used for the removal of bullet fragments.
But now they say it could completely change battlefield surgery and allow soldiers to be stabilised more quickly on the frontline.
"We were somewhat surprised," Vycor's president, Ken Coviello said.
"We tried to design a product for deep brain access, to reach deep targets, small tumors, hematomas. Bullets were never on the radar. This is the first bullet to be removed."
Chat about this story w/ Talkita
0 comments:
Post a Comment