Doctors make 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, according to a news agency.
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 told bdnews24.com his mother was recuperating in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (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 Tuesday.
The patient was suffering from a kind of stroke due to aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.