Hyderabad :

A two-day Neurology conference was inaugurated at STAR hospitals on Saturday. The conference aims to discuss advances in the field of Neurology, Neuroradiology and high end Endoscopic Neurosurgery.

Many eminent neurologists and neurosurgeons from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are attending the conference.

A pre-conference workshop was held at Star Hospitals on Friday. Dr GVS Chowdhary, Dr Venkata Swamy (Neurologists), Dr Sukumar Sura, Dr Sai Sudarsan and Dr Bala Rajasekhar (Neurosurgeons) attended the workshop.

A neurosurgery workshop was conducted at Star Hospitals in which endoscopic surgery for disc disease was demonstrated live. A patient was operated upon under local anaesthesia. He walked on his own soon after the surgery and interacted with the delegates who attended the workshop.

This unique stitchless and painless surgery, can be done while the patient is awake. This surgery is done only at Star Institute of neurosciences. Various developments in neuroradiology were also discussed in the conference.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Express News Service / June 28th, 2015