Dr Srikant Kumar Swain, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at IMS and SUM Hospital, recently conducted the procedure on a young adult with a tumor near the brain’s speech and motor control areas.
The baby, weighing only 860 grams when born, faced severe respiratory challenges immediately after birth and was shifted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Prof (Dr) Debasish Nanda, Head of the neonatal unit, said.
Surgeons at the Sitalapalli campus of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here have successfully removed a rare sinus tumour from a 60-year-old suffering woman recently, an official said on Thursday.
Sahu led a team of doctors to successfully treat two patients using the latest technology at IMS and SUM Hospital.
The 34-year-old woman from Jajpur district, who had been suffering from hypertension for a long period and was on medication, had been treated at several places without any relief before coming to IMS and SUM Hospital.
“We are using high-frequency sound waves for imaging which is much better than CT or MRI scan to view the inside of chest and abdomen,” Prof. (Dr.) Manoj Kumar Sahu, Head of the Department of Gastroenterology in the hospital, said.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Sushant Mishra, Professor and Head of the department of Burns, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery initiated the treatment of the child.
We had interacted with children and their parents in the OPD as well as in the IPD regarding child safety knowledge and practices, Prof. Pradhan said.
In phase three, two doses would be administered to each volunteer 28 days apart but the follow-up period would extend to 12 months to look at its long term and side-effects, he said.
