Neurosurgery

The placement of a permanent continuous stimulation system in the spinal cord area, analogous to a cardiac pacemaker, has allowed a 38-year-old woman to walk again after five years in a wheelchair. She had fallen from a great height, damaging her spinal cord and losing sensation from the navel down.

Squadron leader Andrei Criste, the pilot of an MIG 21 LanceR airplane that crashed in Mures County, underwent surgery on Wednesday at the Carol Davila Military Hospital in Bucharest, with the surgery reportedly going on well, without events or complications during or after surgery that would have endanger the life or physical integrity of the pilot.

President Radev's wife Desislava Radeva was admitted to hospital with an aneurysm. The First Lady has had a severe headache since Friday night, but apparently didn't pay much attention to the symptoms. However, her condition deteriorated severely yesterday evening and overnight she was taken to St. Ivan Rilski hospital in Sofia.

A violinist helped surgeons avoid damage to her brain during surgery to remove a tumor by playing her instrument, the UK hospital where she underwent the innovative procedure said.        

Surgeons came up with the novel approach to ensure that areas of Dagmar Turner's brain responsible for intricate hand movements were not affected during the precision procedure.

The brain surgery of a young patient, performed by neurosurgeons from Texas, USA, was partially transmitted directly to Facebook, according to France Press.

For the purposes of the intervention, 25-year-old Jenna Schardt was left awake so she could talk to the surgeons and direct them.

Over 95% of aneurysms are now treated in Bulgaria, too, Assoc. Prof. Stanimir Sirakov, the head of the Centre for Cerebrovascular Diseases at St. Ivan Rilski University Hospital, told Focus Radio. 

Despite the population decline, the number of surgeries in Bulgaria is increasing. And not all medical establishments in which they are implemented meet the requirements for a minimum volume of activity. This shows the analyzes of the Hospital Index on three major surgical activities in the country - neurosurgery, cardiac surgery and orthopedics.

Doctor Vicentiu Saceleanu, the chief of the Neurosurgery Section of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital (SCJU) in Sibiu, was awarded again at the PRO INVENT International Research, Innovation and Inventions Salon in Cluj-Napoca, for discovering a new osteosynthesis material, designed for patients who need repair of cranium defects, according to a press release sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

We mark the Day of the Bulgarian Doctor.

Traditionally, the Bulgarian Doctors' Union handed out the Doctor of the Year award.

Among all those who deserve the prizw this year, the medics awarded the maxillofacial surgeon Professor Nikolay Yanev, who performed an impressive surgery.

Cyberknife has been introduced for the first time in Bulgaria at Sveti Georgi (Saint George) university hospital in the city of Plovdiv. About ten patients have already undergone treatment with one of the most advanced forms of radiosurgery for removing cancer in the Radiotherapy Clinic in the hospital, according to BNT.