Date: 4/19/2008
TUMSPR News: For the first time in the world, vascular lesions were treated by a novel material, Neucrylate glue, at Imam Khomeini Hospital’s Imaging Center.
Dr. Ramin Pakbaz, the assistant professor of San Diego, California University and the discoverer of the glue for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms in a joint cooperation between the neurosurgical team of the center, said “This glue, known as Neucrylate, has been made for the first time in the world by the help of Dr. Karriere (one of the authorities in neurosurgery in the world) and it is used for filling Berry hemangiomas which may eventually end in CVAs.”
He said that successful laboratory tests had been done in the United States and this is the first application of the method on a middle-aged patient’s anterior communicating artery that had lost its integrity due to interior wall infirmity and resulted to an aneurysm. He said that they had used the double-balloon method which is known as one of the most difficult intravascular procedures.
On the method and its expenses, this Iranian researcher said: “This method gives us the opportunity to rebuild the damaged artery instead of coils or clips. Until now coils were used for the treatment of aneurysms that acted like a tiny spring but because of its expansive costs most people couldn’t afford it but in the present method they pay far less.
The associate professor of San Diego, California University knew the Neucrylate glue’s advantage over other methods its time saving procedure and the minimum exposure to x-ray.
Dr. Ghanaati, the head of the imaging center of Imam Khomeini Educational Hospital, said that this method was to be used for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms after a year of evaluation at the ethics committee at the research deputy of TUMS. He added that by the application of this novel method by our capable doctors and researchers, a worldwide attention from international societies and reputed universities would be drawn towards Iran.
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