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 Teleconference of neurosurgeons
Neurosurgeons from Tamil Nadu participated in the Sixth International Congress of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery being held in Japan - through a teleconference organised by Apollo Hospitals in Chennai. Though being held in Nagoya, Japan, the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation enabled the neurosurgeons in Tamil Nadu to participate in the international congress.
Apollo Hospitals organised a live interactive multipoint video teleconference with experts from Japan and Hong Kong. Papers were presented and discussed based on the various advances made in this rapidly emerging field.
Prof K Ganapathy, specialist in Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Apollo Hospitals, presented the hospitals’ experience of 240 cases of cerebral arterio venous malformations (a condition where abnormal blood vessels in the brain are at risk of rupturing posing major risks to the patients or even causing death) treated non-invasively. This is one of the largest series in Asia of LINAC-based radio surgery for arterio venous malformations, with 12 per cent of the patients being from adjacent countries.
Dr Ganapathy is also the senior vice-president of the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF). He plays a key role in utilising the ATNF to regularly organise continuing medical education programmes nationally and globally. With 76 telemedicine centres of ATNF, the Apollo Hospitals Group is mobilising its resources to ensure healthcare reaches all, in every part of the country and in the adjacent countries and also work towards educating the medical fraternity to update themselves in the latest developments in the medical field.
The 6th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery is on till March 10.
Among those who took part in the telweconference were Madjid Samii (Germany) on 'Minimally invasive brain Surgery in eloquent area and deep-seated pathology'; Junkoh Yamashita (Japan) on 'Less invasive technique to overcome brain shift during glioma surgery with navigation', Kiyoshi Saito (Japan) on 'Surgical treatment of malignant and benign orbital tumours: minimally invasive or skull base approach'; Axel Perneczky (Germany), Hideyuki Ohnishi (Japan) on 'Retrocarotid infracommunicating approach for parasellar and interpedunculer tumours'; Wai S. Poon (Hong Kong) and Dr K Ganapathy (India) on 'Linac stereotactic radiosurgery for cerebral arteriovenous malformations: A review of 250 cases'.
This was followed by a Q&A session.
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