For the first time, a blood clot was removed from the brain in Mykolaiv region

For the first time, Mykolaiv Regional Clinical Hospital performed a thrombectomy, an operation to remove a blood clot from the brain vessels. Thanks to the intervention of doctors, a 53-year-old patient who was admitted from Ochakiv with a stroke avoided severe disability.

This was reported to MikVistem by neurosurgeon Oleksandr Nedelyev.

The man was admitted to the hospital with a clogged large branch of blood vessels that supplied the right hemisphere of the brain. The left side of his body was paralyzed and his speech was slurred. First, thrombolysis was performed, but the clot was too large. They decided to perform a thrombectomy. The operation lasted about two hours and was performed for the first time in Mykolaiv and the region by a neurosurgeon and cardiac interventionist.

After waking up, the patient's leg began to move, then his arm, and his speech improved. Currently, the man's condition is stable and he is undergoing rehabilitation.

Earlier, in an interview with Intent, Odesa surgeon Ivan Beskrovnyi, head of general surgery at the Odrex Medical Center, said that modern surgery no longer looks like a scary medical marathon with a long recovery. Patients get up an hour after surgery and go home the next day. However, despite the technological breakthrough and painless interventions, the fear of "not waking up" after anesthesia remains the strongest. According to him, thanks to the development of laparoscopic surgery-when operations are performed through small punctures-patients recover quickly, move on their own within an hour of the intervention, and feel minimal or no pain.

Катерина Глушко