Disc Nucleoplasty performed first time in NK

Disc Nucleoplasty performed first time in NK
Newindpress.com

Thursday January 19 2006

HUBLI: Dr Sanjeev S Kalsoor, city based neurologist sucessfully performed ‘Disc Nucleoplasty’ (DN), an alternative to major spine surgery on a patient here on Wednesday.

Disclosing this to reporters here on Wednesday, Dr Kalsoor said that DN was successfully performed on Sunil S Halakatte (23) of Chikkodi who had a complaint of severe low back ache for the last three months.

Doctor said that DN was a localised and controllable approach to disc decompression. The surgery was conducted by using bipolar radio frequency energy to remove tissue via plasma molecular dissociation and it had significantly reduced intra discal pressure, he added.

He said that patients having severe low back ache or radicular symptoms like arm or leg pain and having disc lesion either cervical (neckline part) or lumbar spine and other such disc protrusion were earlier recommended for major surgery.

While giving PowerPoint demonstration of surgery, he said that DN was completely a blood less surgery and had least invasive procedure with the help of needle.

DN would be performed under local anaesthesia condition within 20 minutes time and could be performed on an outpatient also, he added.

He said that DN did not require cutting of any tissue and post operation bracing and was also approved by American Medical Association.

Percutaneous needle technology that was must to perform DN was available only in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Hubli in the country, he added.

He said that such operation was the first instance in North Karnataka as people were unaware of this cost-effective surgery.

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