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Surgical Procedure
Pre-operative Preparation: Some routine tests –
blood, urine, in some cases an ECG and a chest X-ray are conducted on
the patient after being admitted to the hospital. On the day before surgery,
the patient is allowed no food or drink after midnight. For some patients,
surgeons recommend pre-operative embolization, before the day of scheduled
surgery.
On the day of Surgery: Normally, the patient is taken
to the operation theater half-an-hour before the operation. Next, the
anesthetists are applied on the patient, for general anesthesia. For convenience
an area of the brain might be shaved. Now, the surgeons open the skull
using a procedure called craniotomy. Consequently, the AVM is removed
from the surrounding brain surgically.
It takes several hours to complete the surgery. However, the length of the
surgery depends on the intricacies involved in the surgery. After the
surgery is over, head dressing is applied to the patient’s head
and he/she is sent to the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit for close
observation.
Recuperation in hospital
After one to two days, the patient is shifted to general bed from ICU.
If the doctors find the patient is recovering well, he/she might be discharged
from hospital within a week. Further, the doctors ensure that the AVM
has been completely detached by performing a repeat angiogram.
Recovery after the surgery
The patient has to rest at home for a certain period after the surgery.
In some cases, the patients undergo a course of physiotherapy. Some patients
also develop deterioration of their symptoms temporarily like numbness
and weakness of muscles or partial paralysis. However, in a majority of
cases the patients experience an overall recovery after six months of
healing. Call 832-858-2096 now
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