Flow diversion therapy cures 100 brain aneurysm patients at Kozhikode MCH

The Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, has been able to provide relief to more than 100 patients suffering from cerebral aneurysms through flow diversion therapy in recent years.

According to doctors, a brain aneurysm is a condition that affects blood vessels in the brain and can lead to bleeding and stroke. An aneurysm refers to a bulge that forms in a blood vessel due to weakness in the vessel walls.

Sources in the interventional radiology department said on Sunday (June 7) that two types of endovascular procedures, coiling and flow therapy, are used to cure the condition. They are done without opening the skull. A catheter is passed through a small opening in a blood vessel in the leg and is guided into the blood vessels in the brain. A flow diverter is a stent-like device placed in a blood vessel affected by an aneurysm to restore normal blood flow.

KG Sajeeth Kumar, director, said that Kozhikode MCH has performed the second highest number of flow diversion treatments in the state, after Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram. The hospital has also successfully treated over 250 patients with coiling therapy.

Aneurysm treatment is carried out under the coordination of Dr. Sajeeth Kumara, NJ Johna, Head of Radiology Department; KR Rahul, Interventional Radiologist; Binu Sajid, Head of Anesthesia, Jacob George, Head of Neurology, Shaju Mathew, Head of Neurosurgery, and P. Geetha, Head of General Medicine.

Published – 07 Jun 2026 19:46 IST