On May 11, Dr. Dr. Tran Chi Cuong, Director of Can Tho Stroke and Cardiovascular Hospital (SIS Can Tho), said that he had just returned to normal walking and walking for a man with quadriplegia dragging his legs. 13 years long.
The patient is Mr. NHĐ. (33 years old, living in Quang Nam). At the age of 20, Mr. Sudden collapse, quadriplegia, was diagnosed with a stroke of unknown cause. The family took him to many places for treatment, but for many years, the patient had to lie in one place, unable to walk on his own.
Recently, his condition is getting worse, he went to a local hospital and was diagnosed with malformation cervical spinal cord and referred to SIS Can Tho Hospital.
The man was able to stand on his own two feet after decades of paralysis
Here, the results of the DSA showed that he had a cervical spinal cord malformation at the level of C5-C7, which supplied blood from the anterior and posterior spinal branches on both sides and a branch of the right cervical trunk artery.
Through consultation, the doctors determined that the patient had a very severe “congenital cervical vascular malformation”. The condition of vascular malformation is complicated, and open surgery cannot be performed, the only way is endovascular intervention to cause occlusion of the malformed marrow blood vessel.
After nearly 2 hours of stress, the successful embolization procedure significantly reduced blood flow into the malformation.
Dr. Dr. Tran Chi Cuong added that this is a very complicated case of cervical vascular malformation. Because the disease progressed for a long time, the malformed mass was too large, compressing the marrow, causing weakness in the limbs.
The most difficult point in medullary vascular intervention is only selective occlusion of the malformed blood vessel, without damaging the healthy medullary vessels, this limit is only measured in millimeters. The efforts of the doctors brought success to the intervention. After the intervention, the patient recovered motor function, he was able to walk on his own after many years of suffering.
Deformities that are difficult to intervene are successfully treated by doctors
Currently, even in the world, there are very few doctors who perform vascular interventions because the technique requires high accuracy and good support.
In the past, the disease was often diagnosed as marrow hemorrhage, transverse myelitis, or sciatica, disc herniation… Nowadays, with the method of magnetic resonance imaging with magnetic field from 1.5 Tesla or more (at night). 3 Tesla) doctors will detect vascular malformations fairly easily and can be completely cured.
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