Department of Vascular and Functional Neurosurgery

The Department of Vascular and Functional Neurosurgery has 26 beds. The department provides medical care to patients with vascular pathology of the brain and spinal cord, and also deals with surgical treatment of epilepsy and Parkinson's disease. The department also performs a full range of microsurgical operations for pain syndromes, spastic conditions, neuralgia of the cranial nerves, and essential tremor. Minimally invasive surgical interventions are performed under local or superficial anesthesia, and the doctors of the department can always adjust their actions depending on the results obtained during intraoperative diagnostics using CT and MRI.

The department has extensive experience in the surgical treatment of such CNS vascular diseases as aneurysms of the brain and spinal cord, arteriovenous malformations, carotid-cavernous fistulas of the cerebral vessels, occlusions of the main arteries of the brain, hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes. The department has implemented methods of surgical treatment of vascular pathology of increased complexity: operations on large and giant aneurysms of the brain, operations to treat large and deep-seated vascular malformations, hypervascularized brain tumors. The department's specialists perform about 600 neurosurgical interventions annually.

Modernly equipped operating rooms, high qualification of surgeons allow us to perform operations on brain vessels of any complexity. We use an operating microscope and a navigation station, which allows us to calculate the optimal trajectory of surgical access. The staff of the vascular and functional neurosurgery department received 1 patent for an invention, published 1 monograph, 2 methodological recommendations. Among the doctors of the department, there are 3 candidates of science. The doctors of the department are members of WFNS (World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies), EANS (European Association of Neurosurgeons), ACNS (Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons)

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Patients are treated using the principles of minimally invasiveness, minimal trauma and careful treatment of the brain and spinal cord tissues. The following methods are used for this purpose: 

1. Endovascular treatment of cerebral vascular aneurysms (microspirals, remodeling using a balloon or stent);

2. Microsurgical excision of vascular anomalies (arteriovenous malformations, arteriovenous fistulas);

3. Endovascular embolization of vascular pathologies (arteriovenous malformations, arteriovenous fistulas) with adhesive components;

4. Endovascular treatment of carotid-cavernous anastomosis;

5. Endovascular stenting of head and neck vessels;

6. Spinal cord neurostimulation;

7. Radiofrequency thermal destruction of the trigeminal nerve root in neuralgia (inflammation) of the trigeminal nerve;

8. Surgical treatment of drug-resistant forms of epilepsy;

9. Stereotactic neurostimulation of deep structures of the brain;

Head of the Department - Dr. Yerbol Makhambetov, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon of the highest category.