This article is based on the oral account of Ms. Zhu, a family member of the patient.
When he opened his eyes, his consciousness began to slowly wake up. He said he wanted to go home. I listened to him and recalled in my mind the ups and downs of decades of marriage.
Home, what a warm word. Although I never had any heroic vows with him, I knew that he had a home in his heart. He also has love in his heart. Now, having experienced the test of life and death, I am grateful to Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital for putting him on the road of **.
I'm sure soon we'll be able to go home, just like a rainbow after a rainy day. Therefore, I decided to write this thank you letter to Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital, and write about our true story.
Dear all the medical staff of Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital:
Hello!I am a mother and a wife. Today, it is with great excitement that I write this sincere thank you letter to you and share it with my dear patients. My husband is in his fifties. I have the impression that he is always energetic. He has a successful career and is now an executive in a public company. The most precious thing is that he is not only capable of excellence, but also loves his family deeply. In the decades since we got married, we have been in harmony and have been together through thick and thin. I still remember that on September 5 this year, I happened to be out of town and had a phone call with my husband** in my hometown of Huai'an. He was completely different from his usual call, the main difference was that he couldn't speak clearly. That night, the husband became ill. He suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was taken to a local hospital. In order to reduce the pressure on the skull, the hospital urgently arranged surgery for the husband to remove part of the skull. After the operation, my husband was paralyzed, and we sent him to a **hospital** in Shanghai. This sudden blow was fatal to me. My husband, who is usually strong, is lying weakly in bed, and I don't seem to be ready for all this. During the ** period, the husband had a variety of complications such as lung infection and heart failure, and the situation was very dangerous. As his relative, of course, I want to save his life at all costs. Because someone in my family is studying medicine, I have always known about Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital, so I decided to send my husband to Donglei. We were fortunate to have met Director Gai Yanting and his excellent team.
My husband was in critical condition and confused when he was first admitted to Donglei Brain Clinic. Although I had prepared for the worst in my heart at that time, I still had a glimmer of hope. Director Gai Yanting of Donglei Brain Department immediately organized a multidisciplinary joint consultation, and experts from cardiology, respiratory, neurocritical care, brain surgery and other departments jointly formulated a detailed and thorough diagnosis and treatment plan. First of all, the doctors at Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital managed to control my husband's heart failure and lung infection after all-out rescue. Through examination, it was found that my husband had both a cerebral aneurysm and moyamoya disease. Director Gai Yanting performed cerebral aneurysm embolization for my husband, which relieved the fatal risk of rupture and bleeding at any time. Next, the hospital arranged a skull repair for us, in which part of the skull removed during the previous surgery was repaired with artificial materials. The elderly mother-in-law was worried about the risks of skull repair and was hesitant to do it. But I gritted my teeth and decided to do my best to save the day. It turned out that I made the right decision. The doctors at Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital had excellent surgical skills and the operation was very successful. After careful care after surgery, my husband's original incision trachea was sutured. He gradually regained his consciousness. The first thing my husband said when he regained his consciousness was that he wanted to go home, and I burst into tears. I held his hand and said to him, "Lao Liu, when you get better, we will go home together." "At present, my husband has been successfully discharged from the hospital and has entered the ** stage. Thanks to Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital for saving his life and greatly improving his quality of life. At the same time, Director Gai also gave us advice on the next step, waiting for the body for a while, we also need to undergo surgery for bilateral moyamoya disease.
Ms. Zhu presented a plaque to the hospital.
Finally, I would like to say: Thank you, Dean Song, for founding this excellent hospital for the benefit of countless patient families like us. Thank you, Director Gai, for being steady, reliable, kind, and humorous. You treat patients as family, with you, we feel very down-to-earth, you are the "Dinghai Shen Needle" in my mind. Thank you, all the medical workers of Donglei Brain Hospital, your skills, character and medical ethics are worthy of the respect of patients. I sincerely wish all the angels in white a safe life!
Ms. Zhu
The attending specialist has something to say
When this patient was first transferred to our hospital, he was in a very serious condition. If you have a serious lung infection and heart failure, if you don't control it well, you may not be able to save it. After our multidisciplinary treatment, the patient's heart failure and lung infection were controlled, and consciousness was soon restored. However, in a follow-up examination, we found that the cause of his cerebral hemorrhage was unknown. After cerebral angiography, we found that the patient had both moyamoya disease and a cerebral aneurysm.
Moyamoya disease and cerebral aneurysms are both common neurosurgical conditions. Among them, moyamoya disease is a chronic cerebrovascular occlusive disease characterized by severe stenosis or occlusion of the siphon part of the bilateral internal carotid artery and the beginning of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries found by cerebral angiography, and the compensatory proliferation of small blood vessels such as the leptomeninges and perforated arteries at the base of the skull, forming an abnormal vascular network at the brain base. It is named because in angiography, the abnormal shape of the blood vessels at the base of the brain resembles the smoke exhaled when smoking. Moyamoya disease is usually caused by abnormalities in both cerebrovascular morphologies, which can cause cerebral hemorrhage and even be life-threatening.
Intracranial aneurysm is a disease caused by multiple factors, with a very high mortality and disability rate. Normal cerebral blood vessels are smooth, but after a cerebral aneurysm caused by genetics, infection, trauma and unknown causes, the local blood vessels are no longer smooth, and a thin wall is formed between the blood vessel walls, and due to pressure, the blood vessel walls bulge outward, forming an aneurysm.
Considering that the last cerebral hemorrhage was relatively short, and the moyamoya disease was relatively stable, but the risk of cerebral aneurysm was greater, we arranged embolization surgery for cerebral aneurysm for him in time. In order to reduce the patient's pain, we completed the embolization surgery and skull repair surgery of the cerebral aneurysm at the same time under the premise of one anesthesia, so that the patient's skull bone defect caused by the previous operation was repaired completely, which is more conducive to the patient's later recovery.
In the whole process of treating this patient, the timing and effect of each step are strictly planned and controlled. At present, the patient is in the first stage, and the family is quite satisfied with the diagnosis and treatment effect and said that it exceeds expectations.
Here, I wish the patient a speedy and good health. I wish the patient's family peace and happiness in the years to come.
Attending expert in neurosurgery of Shanghai Donglei Brain Hospital.
Director Gai Yanting.