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Craniotomy in an awake patient

by mar1admin 28 March 2022

For several years now, with the great progress in anaesthesiology, neurophysiology and neurosurgery, it has been possible, and extremely beneficial for the patient in certain surgical procedures, to perform brain surgery without general anaesthesia.

This is technically possible, because of a truly spectacular event: The brain itself does not “feel” anything! So what this means in practice is that if we can somehow get there (by opening the anatomical structures that protect it, such as the skull bone for example), without causing pain, then we can remove a lesion (a tumour for example) from inside the brain without injuring the delicate neural circuits that control vital functions such as speech, understanding speech, body movement etc.

When this knowledge is combined with the use of neuronavigation technology (a system that directs us in the operating room, in real time, to a predetermined anatomical point within the brain), then, with minimal intervention, we can truly achieve miraculous surgical results without significant risks to the patient’s health and neurological condition.

You may have seen documentaries where a surgeon intervenes in a patient’s brain while they are talking, playing a musical instrument, singing, or moving their limbs. The point of such an intervention is not to show that it is technically possible or to impress with the progress of science. The point is that the area of damage is very close to an important functional area of the brain that controls a very important activity, such as fine finger movement. Thus, a musician, after the operation to remove the affected area, can continue his professional activity and maintain the great skills he has acquired with great effort during his life.

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In the news bulletin of ANT1, Nikos Maratheftis, neurosurgeon

by mar1admin 22 December 2018

The neurosurgeon Nikos Maratheftis appeared in the ANT1 news bulletin, and spoke about the spine surgeries only with local anesthesia that were performed for the first time in Greece at the Euroclinic in Athens .

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Disc hernia: new data in its treatment

by mar1admin 24 January 2018

In recent years, spinal surgery has made tremendous progressUntil recently, or even at the present time, when a patient learned that they needed back surgery, they experienced great fear and uncertainty. Everyone has a friend, acquaintance or neighbor who, after a back surgery for a herniated disc, suffered for a long time, did not solve their problem, or was in even worse pain. Most of course got better, but not for some time after the operation.

Percutaneous Lumbar Decompression

Today this belief is beginning to change and this is only the beginning. Because the most modern technique of waist restoration has come to Greece: Η Percutaneous Lumbar Decompression. The method has all the advantages of surgical treatment, i.e. anatomical and functional restoration of the problem. However, is not accompanied by the discomfort, post-operative pain and bed rest, like the well-known normal surgery.

More specifically: any patient who suffers from symptoms of spinal stenosis, almost 10% of the population over 50 years of age, or from lumbar herniated disc, which causes severe symptoms of back pain and sciatica (persistent back and leg pain, often in young people), until now had 2 options: The first option was to take a lot of medication, do physiotherapy and miss days of work and activities whenever he had a pain attack, usually 1-3 times a year. The second option was to go into surgery, often with fear and uncertainty about the final outcome.

But now with Percutaneous Lumbar Decompression, the patient has almost complete recovery, without the risks of open surgery, or the discomfort of constant recurrence and medication.

Not a day in bed

With a few hours ‘ hospitalization in the hospital, an incision of a few millimeters is made, which is then seen as a scratch on the skin. The patient does not lose blood and the musculoskeletal system is not injured. From this small opening, everything needed to fully decompress the spinal canal and the nerves that are under pressure is done.

In just a few days, the patient returns to full activity. He doesn’t have to stay in bed for a day. The relief of his symptoms is immediate and noticeable. As patients say, “the leg stretches out, becomes stronger and walking becomes more confident”. Post-operative medication is practically non-existent (small dose of paracetamol).

The problem ceases to exist and all patients resume their daily activities without pain. Younger people go back to work quickly. Older people can walk again as much as they want, so they can take care of their work or visit their friends, without thinking that they cannot walk more than 100-200 metres without being stopped by pain.

The most modern surgical method is not out of reach for anyone. Thanks to it, anyone who does manual work or leads a sedentary life and needs to work for a living can work again. without pain. But even if he is older, he doesn’t isolate himself at home, pining away because he can’t bear to walk down the street. The solution now exists, for everyone!

Ν. Marathi
Director of the Neurosurgery Clinic
Athens Euroclinic

Published in boro.gr

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Gazzetta.gr article about the operation on Sotiris Manolopoulos

by mar1admin 9 November 2017

Publication of Gazzetta.gr

 

Source: gazetta.gr

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Incontinence

Fill out the form if you have an incontinence or frequent urination problem

by mar1admin 3 March 2017

Do you have a problem with incontinence or frequent urination? Fill in the form to find the solution together.

 

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Scientific meeting at the Pasteur Institute

by mar1admin 19 January 2017

The neurosurgeon, Nikos Maratheftis will speak at the Scientific Meeting that will take place on January 24, 2017, in the amphitheater of the Pasteur Institute, on the subject of Percutaneous Spine Support Surgery.

 

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      • Stroke
      • Arteriovenous malformations
    • Central Nervous System Infections
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