Dr. Sunil Kutty - Neurosurgeon in Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

Tips for Healthy Lifestyle With time becoming an important commodity and the need to succeed at any cost the prime motive, health and healthy lifestyle has indeed gone for a toss. The demands of our profession includes late nights, it is not just the watchman who is keeping awake in the night….a student studying for his exams, a computer geek trying to crack a code, the BPO kids trying to prove their mettle, the surgeon operating on an emergency with his team of paramedics, everybody is at it. Add to this the stress of completing assignments on time, travel, improper time and unhealthy food. This lifestyle finally does take a toll on our mental and physical health. No wonder we are seeing young patients visiting hospitals with cardiac problems, hypertension, strokes, diabetes, depression all these are in some way or the other linked to our lifestyles. I have started encountering the effects of this in my clinical practice also, every third patient of brain stroke I have seen i

22 year old working at an I.T Firm experienced severe headache and fell unconscious on a normal working day at her workplace. She was then admitted to a nearby hospital in the same unconscious state. After a primary diagnosis she was shifted to Well Known hospital for further management. A CT Scan was done upon admission which showed bleeding in the Left Parietal Region. an emergency cerebral angiography was done to detect the cause of the sudden bleed in an apparently normal young girl. The reports showed that she had an intracranial AVM (arteriovenous malformation) which had ruptured and bled. An arteriovenous malformation is an abnormal communication between the arteries and the veins which are prone to rupturing and bleeding. Any bleeding inside the brain is complex but the AVM made it much more complex. The surgical procedure in such cases becomes extremely challenging. the other major challenge that doctors had to face in this case was that the bleeding was  in the Lef