Youth regained his eye vision after a rare endovascular surgery

Chandigarh, February 3, 2022: A 22 years old youth regained his eye vision that he was gradually losing after a head injury, after a rare endovascular surgery at Ivy Hospital, Mohali recently.  
Addressing a press conference at a hotel here on Thursday, Dr Vineet Saggar, Head Neurosurgery and Interventional Neurosurgery Ivy Hospital who treated the youths said that Mohinder (name changed) has suffered a severe head injury 1 month back. He has lost vision in right eye due to an accident. After 15 days of the accident, he complained of loss of vision in his left eye too.
He was rushed to Ivy Hospital where Dr Saggar examined him. Dr Saggar and his team did a Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and found that the youth problem was due to Carotid Cavernous Fistula between the left carotid (which is the main blood supplying vessel to left side brain) and Cavernous sinus behind the left eye. Due to which he was not only fast losing vision in left eye and if left untreated this fistula can result in fatal hemorrhage in the brain too, said Dr. Saggar who is one of the few Dual trained neurosurgeons.
The patient was treated via endovascular techniques  through which the vision of the patient's left was preserved. The patient is improving now and swelling in his eye has also disappeared, Dr Saggar said.
Meanwhile Dr Saggar has done over 100 Neuro intervention procedures in the past few years at Ivy Hospital successfully.