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Assiut University Hospital Succeeds in the Use of a New Technique in Minute Brain Surgery

  Headed by Dr. Mustafa Hashem, Professor of Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, a medical team has successfully done a minute brain surgery done at the University Hospital to 63-year-old woman from Minya. The patient was suffering from a bleeding arterial fistula in the brain which forms a risk to the patient's life. Dr. Hashim stated that this surgery is considered a new accomplishment in the treatment of bleeding problems in brain arteries. He also indicated that the team relied on using a new technique applying Squid substance to close the fistula; a process which is the latest developed devise which also requires the highest skill during the surgery. In addition to this, he notified that this type of surgeries has been done in Cairo University by a joint medical team of Egyptians and foreigners, but this time, it is performed by an entirely Egyptian team from radiology, anesthesiology, and intensive care departments at Assiut University Hospital.