Lagos hospital performs liver bypass surgery without open surgery
Twenty-year-old Tosin Ojelabi became ill in 2015, she was diagnosed of Budd–Chiari which she had been suffering from for three years. In the past, the only way to treat Budd-Chiari syndrome was a large operation with surgery creating “a mesocaval shunt”, a shunt from the big veins in the belly to the inferior vena cava. […]
Nigeria Performs First Sub-Saharan Liver Bypass Surgery In Lagos
Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, leading multi-specialist hospital in Lagos, has performed the first Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt, TIPS procedure in Nigeria. The minimally invasive liver procedure was performed by a team of local medical specialists at Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital Lagos. Read More…
Euracare performs first TIPS procedure in Nigeria
Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, leading multi-specialist hospital in Lagos, has performed the first TIPS procedure in Nigeria. The minimally invasive liver procedure was performed by a team of local medical specialists at Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital Lagos. Read More…
First liver bypass surgery in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa is performed at Euracare multispecialty hospital without open surgery
Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, leading multi-specialist hospital in Lagos, has performed the first TIPS procedure in Nigeria. The minimally invasive liver procedure was performed by a team of local medical specialists at Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital Lagos. Read More…
Euracare Performs First Liver Bypass Surgery In Nigeria
Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital, leading multi-specialist hospital in the country, has performed the first Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt, TIPS procedure in Nigeria. LEADERSHIP gathered that the minimally invasive liver procedure was performed by a team of local medical specialists at Euracare Multi-Specialist Hospital Lagos. Read More…
Ghana performs first brain surgery without cutting skull at Euracare Advanced Diagnostics and Heart Centre
A seven-member team of Ghanaian doctors has performed the first-ever brain surgery in the country, without cutting the skull. The minimally invasive brain surgery is the technique by which health workers safely remove brain and skull-base tumours through smaller and more precise openings that minimise collateral damage; that is, injury or other damage inflicted on […]
A Guide To Bariatric Surgery
Weight-loss & GI Surgeon Dr Abuchi Okaro provides some top tips on why you should consider bariatric surgery as an option for weight-loss. Read More…
Euracare Advanced Diagnostics and Heart Centre on front line to perform first Prostate Artery Embolization in Western Africa
Euracare Ghana is the first and only medical facility in Ghana that is currently performing prostate artery embolization. A world-class angiographic machine (Cath Lab) and special software is required to perform the procedure by well-trained interventional radiologist/Cardiologist. Read More…
Weight loss surgery prevents non–communicable disease, improves life expectancy
Chronic non-communicable diseases related to diet and nutrition is presenting the greatest public health burden to Nigerians and medical experts are advocating surgical procedures to manage weight and improve healthy living. Read More…