Doctors in Macao has succeeded in treating the cerebral aneurysm of a 42-year-old lying-in woman without cutting her skull open.
Not long ago, doctors with the Sao Januario Hospital operated on the woman with a method they call embolization of endo-vascular therapy, doctors said at a press conference Wednesday.
With the assistance of complex supervising device, a wire of stainless steel with a coil on the front part was inserted into the femoral artery and the coil was sent all the way to the affected part.
By means of electrolysis, the coil was detached from the wire.
In addition, the coil absorbed blood cells, resulting in the effect of embolism.
Such therapy of treating cerebral aneurysm began to be practiced in some developed countries in the mid-1990s. And it was the first clinical case in Macao.
(People's Daily 12/28/2000)
