Live webcast: No incision surgery for pituitary brain tumor

OR-Live.com broadcast December 13th @ 6:00 PM CST from Trinity Mother Frances Neuroscience Institute, Tyler, TX

On December 13 at 6 p.m. Central Time, Trinity Mother Frances will host a live webcast of a neurosurgical procedure during which a pituitary brain tumor will be removed through a patient's nasal cavity. Sabatino Bianco, MD, a Trinity Clinic neurosurgeon and the Director of the Trinity Mother Frances Neuroscience Institute, will perform an endoscopic transsphenoidal hypophysectomy (ETH), which eliminates the need for incisions and removal of the nasal septum and/or nasal turbinates.
Victor Williams, MD, also a Trinity Clinic neurosurgeon, will serve as moderator of the webcast.

"This technique is offered by very few neuroscience centers in the world," said Dr. Bianco. "In order to perform this operation, a neurosurgeon must go through a long learning curve and have access to specialized endoscopic instrumentation and navigational system technology. The pain, recovery time and travel have all been reduced for our patients. We are very excited."

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Tags:

• brain
• tumor
• cancer
• pituitary
• endoscopic
• transsphenoidal
• hypophysectomy
• neuroscience
• neurosurgical
• ETH
• surgery
• medical

[teachermissshell]

I had the transphenoidal hypophysectomy surgery done about a week ago to remove a pituitary tumor. Took about 4 hours total, and they removed about 1/3 of my pituitary with the tumor. Cortisol levels were over 500 before surgery and 3.5 after. (Boy, that 24-hour "withdrawal" period they have you go through is HELL!). Now I'm on 60 mg. of hydrocortisone a day and still not feeling terrific. Hoping they can reduce this as my body starts naturally producing some hormone again.

[SamPD2]

@serinareneemedrano12 At least you can type right.... At least somewhat.

[serinareneemedrano12]

i had my pituitary gland removed and im hella messed up now ...but i have no more head achs but i am dependable on pills and i have no controll over the way i talk im very blunt and rude and i yell alot i was never like that and now i cant stop and im getting very fat im almost 200 ibs now when i was 110 lbs im thankful to be alive but i just have so many side effects it's crazy ....mine was brain sirgery it lasted 19 hours and i was 7 months pregnant and i contracted menenjites and diabeties.

[blitzbray96]

@tcb1967 how was your surgery? and was it brain surgery?

[tcb1967]

I have my surgery scheduled for Sept 29th....

[52689prettyflo]

how bowt the transsphenoidal hypophysectomy?