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Brain Bypass

In this program, a 30-year-old woman undergoes vascular neurosurgery, a surgical treatment for stroke. The patient has suffered from extreme headaches all her life and has been misdiagnosed for years. During this innovative operation, performed by Dr. Robert Spetzler, a vascular neurosurgeon, at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, the surgeon harvests an artery under the cheekbone in front of the ear, removes the artery, removes part of the skull, and sutures the new artery to the existing deteriorated artery—in effect, building a new temporal artery. A Discovery Channel Production. (47 minutes)

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Item#: BVL6261
Copyright date: ©1995

Part of the Series : Surgical Procedures, Part 2


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