Manipal Hospitals conducts flow diverter stent

Manipal hospitals, Tadepalli, have successfully conducted the first flow diverter stent procedures in the new capital city region to restore blood circulation and vision of two patients. The hospital announced the details of two cases on Thursday.

In the first case, the neurology department of Manipal hospital has performed the flow diverter stent on a 58-year- old woman patient Sarojini, who was brought to the hospital with blurred vision. She was treated to restore the vision.

Speaking to reporters here on Thursday Dr Sudheer Chakravarthi, consultant interventional Neurologist, Manipal hospitals, said on Thursday the hospital doctors have found that there was a giant aneurysm of (3.2x2.7cm) in the left supra clinoid ICA as a result of which there was a compression in the adjacent nerves of the eye causing diminution of vision.

He said it was dangerous to the patient and it could lead to the death. Dr Sudheer Chakravarthi said the hospital conducted ‘flow diverter stent’ procedure to restore the blood supply and cure the problem. He said the woman will get vision very soon and recover from the problem.

He said traditionally the doctors follow surgical procedures like clipping or extra cranial to intracranial bypass with parent artery occlusion to treat the patient, which he felt was dangerous. He said Manipal hospital had performed flow diverter stent without surgery to rectify the problem.

In another case, the hospital Neurologists have performed flow diverter stent on a patient Sridhar, who was suffering from the complaint of double vision and headache due to existence of a giant aneurysm (2.7x1.6 cm) in the left cavernous ICA.

He said the aneurysm was compressing a nearby cranial nerve causing the double vision but the neurologists have treated the patient with flow diverter stent. He said normal vision would be restored very soon. He said the double vision will be corrected in the span of next three to four months and he can lead normal life as usual.