Brain surgery performed with robot for first time in Hungary!
A patient suffering from Parkinson’s Disease was successfully operated on at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, as agykutatas.hu reports. The operation was performed with a state-of-the-art neurosurgery robot called ROSA. This was the first time the technology was used in the Central Eastern European region, which is an important result of the National Brain Research Program.
The 70-year-old man who underwent the surgery on the 20 April 2018, ceased displaying his symptoms already during the operation and is in satisfactory condition. The operation was led by Loránd Erőss, a neurosurgeon at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences. This is not the only medical success of this spring: recently, doctors of Semmelweis University performed the first paediatric lung transplantation in Hungary.
The most modern method of treating Parkinson’s Disease is called deep-brain stimulation, during which electrodes are installed in the patient’s head. These function as “brain pacemakers”, stimulating the deeper regions of the brain, and restoring the faulty parts of the networks responsible for mobile coordination.
ROSA, the robot, is useful because it helps the surgeons carry out the installing of these electrodes in a much more precise manner, connecting the three-dimensional map model of the surgery and the actual brain of the patient on the operating table.
ROSA makes things much speedier, too: in the case of an epilepsy operation, the classical 10-12 hours are reduced to a mere 3 hours.
A governmental innovation tender enabled the Institute to purchase the most up-to-date version of the robot, providing 1.2 billion Forints in support. As József Pálinkás, the president of the innovation program said, this result proves that innovative enterprise and targeted development together can lead to gradual and sustainable improvement in innovative accomplishments.
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Source: agykutatas.hu