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Looking at Aneurysms in a New Way

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Channel: Lee Health · 2015 · Science & Technology

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This high tech surgical suite gives doctors a better view of what’s going on inside a patient’s mind. Equipped with a biplane machine it displays real-time images on two separate planes or angles at the same time. At Gulf Coast Medical Center surgeons are using the bi-plane for complicated endovascular procedures. That means techniques performed through a patient’s blood vessels. 

“When people come in with a ruptured aneurysm we’ll do the diagnostic part, we’ll find where the aneurysm’s ruptured and then we’ll do the surgical portion, or we’ll coil the aneurysm in the same setting,” says Dr. Nasser Razack, who is a neurointerventional radiologist with Lee Memorial Health System. 

Coiling is a newer way to approach a ruptured aneurysm compared to clipping the burst blood vessel which cuts off its supply. Best outcomes are dependent on speed.

“Many times it’s quicker to coil an aneurysm than actually clip the aneurysm because we can get to that area relatively closely by using the patient own blood vessels to sort of navigate up to the aneurysm,” says Dr. Greg Velat, an endovascular neurosurgeon with Lee Memorial Health System. 

Enhanced vision, including 3D images and magnification allows surgeons to look at aneurysm in a new way. The coiling procedure is performed by threading a catheter though arteries and deploying a tiny spring that creates an internal structure.

“It basically fills in the aneurysm sack and allows your own platelets to stick to your own metal and also these coils consist of platinum and the platelets love to stick to the platinum and essentially clots the aneurysm off from the inside of the vessel,” says Dr. Velat. 

A delicate procedure made possible by bringing technology into focus. 

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