The first surgery to remove an acoustic neuroma by a translabyrinthine approach from a 60-year-old man who was diagnosed with brain tumor was successfully completed at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute  “Diomid Gherman” in Chisinau in the evening of December 9, IPN reports.

“The operation was successful. It was teamwork between a neurosurgeon from Chisinau and an otolaryngologist from Kiev. The novelty for medicine in the Republic of Moldova was the joint surgery on a particular type of tumor. Such tumors are removed daily, but the new approach could be used owing to the equipment we bought the last few years. We had all the instruments for the patient to safely overcome surgery, with hearing intact and with facial symmetry unaffected and we succeeded,” Doctor Habilitate of Medical Science Grigore Zapuhlyh, of the Neurosurgery Department of “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and director of “Diomid Gherman” Institute, stated for IPN.

He performed the operation together with Doctor Habilitate of Medical Science Oleg Borysenko, head of the Microsurgery Department of the Kiev Otolaryngology Institute “A.I. Kolomyichenko”. The two were assisted by teams of younger mates.

“I’m very satisfied that our patient, an ordinary citizen from a village of a district of the Republic of Moldova, benefitted from international class surgery,” stated Grigore Zapuhlyh.

As to the cooperation between the Moldovan and Ukrainian doctors, the neurosurgeon said this dates from the times of the former Soviet Union, when the Kiev Institute was the second by value after the Burdenko Neurosurgery Institute in Moscow.

The operation was performed based on a cooperation agreement between “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Kiev Otolaryngology Institute “A.I. Kolomyichenko”.