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Neuro Surgery: Rectifying damage to brain or spinal cord as a result of an
accident, conditions such as epilepsy, removal of tumours of the brain or
spinal cord, treatment for stroke and aneurysm are some of the cases
which normally require neurosurgery. Surgery on the spine includes microdiscectomy, laminectomy, corpectomy and spinal fusion. Congenital
diseases of the brain and spine, tumours of the brain, spine and the
spinal cord, vascular diseases such as aneurysms and vascular
malformations, regenerative disc and other spinal diseases,
instrumentation of the spine and the cranio-vertebral junction, diseases
of the pituitary gland, stereotactic surgery, surgery for epilepsy and
movement disorders, stroke and haemorrhage in the brain and spinal
cord, cortical basal ganglionic degeneration, epilepsy in adults with mental
retardation, epilepsy in children with mental retardation are some other
cases for which neurosurgery is being recommended. The surgery is being
performed after conducting various tests for diagnosing the disease
properly. EMG (Electormylogram) which tests the functioning of muscles
and nerves, Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) which monitors the carriage
of impulses through a nerve, Computerised Tomography Scan, Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) Scan, Single Photon Emission Computed
Tomography (SPECT), Interventional Neuro-Radiology and Digital
Substraction Angiography are the major tests done for diagnosing diseases
related to the nervous system.
Transplant Surgery: Transplant surgeries are done for replacing an organ
that is no longer functioning, with another organ in good condition. Organs
are being donated by living and deceased donors. Renal transplant surgery
where a kidney is transplanted into a recipient, liver transplant surgery,
where part of a liver from a donor organ is transplanted into a recipient,
corneal transplant for eye donation and bone marrow transplant used for
treating leukemia are the important transplant cases. As transplant
surgeries are done when an organ of the patient fails, getting the surgeries
done at the earliest is all the more important. So, the patients fr