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Onyx Two
December 4, 2007
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Although aneurysms can be life threatening, there are ways to treat the condition before it becomes an emergency. Dr. Eric Eskioglu is the Director of Endovascular
and Vascular neurosurgery at Healthpark Medical Center. He says, “The first one
is clipping or clamping. We go into the skull, into the brain, find the aneurysm
and obliterate the aneurysm.” Another option is having surgeons put a coil inside
the ballooned artery to stop blood flow and prevent the aneurysm from rupturing.
“We go in through your groin area which is your ephemera artery. We are treating
inside out versus outside in,” says Dr. Eskioglu. Now thanks to some groundbreaking
technology, aneurysm patients have a third option and Healthpark medical center
is one of only two places in the country performing the procedure. “Onyx has been
a third method that just came about, we got approved by FDA to do Onyx in the last
four months. I feel very privileged to be able to use this,” says Dr. Eskioglu.
Onyx is a puddy-like material that essentially fills up and hardens the inside of
an aneurysm. This stops blood from coming into the area and prevents the aneurysm
from rupturing. Dr. Eskioglu says, “We look at each patient and we decide, do we
clip it, coil it or onyx it. Onyx is for candidates that don’t fall into either
two. If nothing else can be done onyx offers another alternative to these patients.
The patients we treat with onyx are the worst of the worst aneurysm.” Like coiling,
Onyx is inserted into the brain through an artery in the groin area. |
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