Brain stroke can be set right without opening skull, say docs

Lucknow: Brain stroke treatment is becoming less invasive, with doctors now able to stop brain bleeding without opening the skull, experts said at a conference on Saturday.Head of radiodiagnosis at King George's Medical University (KGMU), Prof Anit Parihar said the technique uses a thin catheter inserted through a blood vessel in the leg to reach the brain and treat aneurysms."Bleeding in the brain can now be controlled by reaching the aneurysm through a catheter from the leg and sealing it with coiling," he said, adding that it reduces risk and speeds up recovery compared to open surgery.Doctors said the same approach is also helping prevent amputations in diabetic patients by opening blocked arteries in the legs through ballooning or stenting, improving blood flow and healing.Prof Dugesh Dwivedi from KGMU said the technique is now being used at multiple centres, including Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.The conference was organised by the UP chapter of the Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.