Kiss goodbye to repeat surgeries, iMRI is here

Hyderabad | Thursday | 22nd February, 2018

Summary:

more-inYashoda Hospitals has introduced an intra-operative MRI machine that would reduce the need for repetitive surgeries, doctors here said on Wednesday. The procedure takes a few minutes, Anandh Balasubramaniam, senior neurosurgeon at the hospital said. But The shift in brain’s position after excision presents a challenge and risk for error, which can be overcome with intra-operative MRI,” said Anandh Balasubramaniam, senior neurosurgeon at the hospital. “The outcome for patients will greatly improve with such technologies while cost burden on treatment will be reduced by way of preventing multiple surgeries,” he said. This would prevent repeat surgeries in future, he added..