Tuberculosis doesn't just affect the lungs; other facts to know

Every year World TB Day is commemorated on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.

Here are five interesting facts you should know about tuberculosis:

TB doesn't just affect the lungs
While TB is known primarily as a pulmonary (lung) disease, it can also affect other parts of the body, including the kidneys, brain, and spine.

TB is an airborne disease
TB is spread through expelled droplets, every time an infected person coughs, sneezes, or spits. Anyone who breathes in these particles is susceptible to an infection

Smokers are more likely to contract TB
Smokers are more than twice more likely to contract TB, while alcoholics and diabetics are also at a greater risk than the general population.

There is a Vaccine against TB
The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is recommended for healthy babies, to be administered as soon as possible after they're born.

Upto 10 per cent of people with latent TB develop active tuberculosis
As an airborne disease, TB is so contagious, it infects a third of the world's population, however only 10 percent actually develop an active infection.

According to a senior consultant in Respiratory Medicine, "Patients with symptoms of TB must visit the doctor at the earliest as with advanced treatment available it can be cured."

"Awareness is the first step towards good health. In infections such as tuberculosis, it is important that patients are fully aware of the burden of the disease, the types of tests needed and the drugs used for treatment," said a Dr.

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Every year World TB Day is commemorated on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.

Here are five interesting facts you should know about tuberculosis:

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Every year World TB Day is commemorated on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic.

Here are five interesting facts you should know about tuberculosis:

TB doesn't just affect the lungs
While TB is known primarily as a pulmonary (lung) disease, it can also affect other parts of the body, including the kidneys, brain, and s ..

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Epilepsy is treatable and treatment simpler with advanced technology

With advancement in healthcare, epilepsy is eminently treatable now. Nearly 70% of patients who are initiated to the advanced treatment, as a result of latest technology, become free of seizures or epileptic fits within 1 to 2 years and in about half of them, the drugs can be tapered off in due course.

Neurosurgeons from across the world deliberated the latest technological advancement in treating persons with epilepsy. From mapping brain deficiencies to localising the deficiencies and surgically correcting it without affecting the complex areas around, neurosurgery has come of age, with advanced mapping devices, technological assistants to carry out surgery with optimum precision. 

Advanced functional Magnetic Resonating Imaging, PET scan or positron emission tomography scan, QEEG or quantitative electroencephalograph to identify areas of over or under-activity of brain, Extra-operative Intracranial EEG(ICEEG) to monitor progress of treatment, Stereo-EEG to monitor the electric activity on the surface and deep inside the brain are some of the new-age machines that help make treatment of epilepsy more advanced with optimum results at reduced cost.

International experts - Dr. Dileep Nair, Head of Adult Epilepsy and Dr. Imad Najm, Director Epilepsy Centre from the Cleveland Clinic, USA, Dr. Richard Wennberg, Director, Clinical Neurophysiology and national experts like Dr. K. Radhakrishnan former Director of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology and present Director of Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy, Dr. Malla Bhaskar Rao of NIMHANS spoke on the efficacy of various treatment protocols for epilepsy.

India has one-sixth of the global burden of epilepsy, with 12 out of every 1000 people affected and an annual increase of six per every ten thousand Indians. Of the 70 million persons with epilepsy worldwide, nearly 12 million are estimated to be in India.

Ironically, almost 90% of people with epilepsy in India do not receive any treatment. Lack of knowledge of anti-epileptic drugs, poverty, cultural beliefs, stigma, poor health infrastructure and shortage of trained professionals contribute to the treatment gap. There are not more than 20 centers in the country that are capable of treating drug resistant epilepsies.

The international and national experts will also perform advanced techniques hands on at the Amrita Advanced Centre for Epilepsy, which is one of the advanced centers in the country for treatment of this neurological disorder.

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Advanced treatment for brain aneurysm conducted at AIMS

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) here has performed the most advanced treatment for brain aneurysm, the 'flow diverter pipeline stent', the First of its kind in a private hospital in Kerala.

The treatment was performed by a team of doctors Endovascular Division, Neurosurgery Department of AIMS, on a woman patient who had developed disturbances in vision due to a large aneurysm of the brain. The patient was discharged from the hospital within three days after 'the flow diverter pipeline stent' procedure, a press release said.

Aneurysms of the brain's blood vessels are abnormal balloon-like projections that form on the wall of an artery. When these rupture, they can cause disasters. Some patients have complex aneurysms that are large and involve multiple branches of the blood vessel. Traditionally treated with major open skull base surgery and clipping, but the surgery is very complex and required longer hospital stay, the release said.

In the flow diverter Pipeline Embolization Device (PED) which is American FDA approved, is a new alternative that allows for a more natural healing of the aneurysm avoiding a major open surgery.
The device is attached to the end of a catheter that is inserted through the Femoral artery in the right leg. The catheter is threaded into the carotid artery of the brain and into its final position where it is then expanded against the walls of the artery to block off the mouth of the aneurysm, thus cutting off the blood flow into the aneurysm which later shrinks and heals over the next few months. The device also reduces the risk of the aneurysm rupture.

The procedure considerably reduces the hospital stay of the patient to two or three days and the recovery is fast in comparison with similar open surgeries.

Amrita Hospital is one of the only six centers in India that is performing this specialized procedure. The Neurovascular center at Amrita Institute is also providing facilities to tackle the most difficult disease conditions involving the brain's blood vessels - including complex neurosurgical procedures, aneurysm coiling/stenting and stereotactic radiosurgery for vascular malformations of the brain.

The division also offers regular disease-specific screening programmes for carotid disease and stroke prevention, early detection of diseases of the brain's blood vessels.

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