Primorsky doctors performed a unique operation

The doctors performed this operation using an endoscope, inserting the device through the patient’s nose and significantly reducing the risk. Doctors from Primorye performed a unique operation on a young man. Stanislav Belyaev had suffered from meningitis for over ten years. This was a consequence of a car accident he had at the age of nine. “My son had already had an operation right after the accident,” said the unfortunate man’s mother, Svetlana Vladimirovna. “They sewed a plate into his head, but five years ago he started getting sick again. It turned out that the boy had simply grown, and the plate had become too small.” “In common language, the patient had a hole about a millimeter long in his skull,” explained Alexander LANTUKH, Primorye’s chief neurosurgeon. “It was this hole that was creating the problems. The boy was consistently sick every year. In addition, there was a risk of infection penetrating the brain.” The operation, which lasted two hours, was performed by three doctors: Alexander Vasilyevich was assisted by ENT doctors from the endoscopic and plastic surgery department of City Hospital No. 1, Evgeny GILIFANOV and Oleg KOVTUN. — They charged the patient’s mother 17 thousand rubles, that is, exactly enough to cover the cost of materials and drugs. For doctors, such an operation was of great interest, because before this, such a method had not been used in Primorye. Previously, to correct such a defect, patients underwent craniotomy, and this was life-threatening. The doctors performed this same operation using an endoscope, inserting the device through the patient’s nose and significantly reducing the risk. — I know that in other regions of Russia such operations cost from 500 thousand rubles, and in Moscow they charge an average of 1.5 million rubles for them, — admitted Svetlana Vladimirovna. "We simply don't have that kind of money." Source: primamedia.ru