\\\'Breakthrough\\\' in treating stroke

Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery. Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the head in Bangladesh. But three young doctors at Bangladesh’s lone medical university did the procedure on a 60-year-old woman using ‘coiling’ method, which is like an extension of angiogram. The method is common even in India, but this has been used for the first time in Bangladesh. The patient’s son has said his mother is recuperating in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). The BSMMU in a statement said its assistant professor of neurology Dr Md Shahidullah Sabuj, consultants Dr Anis Ahmed and Dr Suvash Kanti Dey performed the two-hour long procedure on Tuesday. The patient was suffering from a kind of stroke due to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Saidur Rahman, son of the patient, said he was ‘happy’ with the treatment, though it costs slightly higher than the conventional surgery. ‘I spent around 0.2 million (200,000), but I wanted my mother’s treatment to go without surgery,’ he said, according to bdnews24.com.