The advantages of trigeminal neuralgia treatemtn in Beijing Tiantan Hospital

1.       Beijing Tiantan Hospital Image Center has first-class human and facilities resources in china. Through the three-dimensional imaging by the application of spiral CT, we can verify the target clearly and correctly. The localization is objective and accurate, the success ratio of this treatment is 100%, and it has no complication. Before the radio frequency treatment, we use square-wave stimulation, verify the target during the operation, and now we lead the world in this advanced technology.

2.       Painless operation: we have good method to keep the patients in full sedation and ease their pain in the operation. The temperature is rising gradually so that patients can be free of the suffering.

3.       Give the patients experimental block with supraorbital nerve, infraorbital nerve, maxillary nerve, mandibular nerve or semilunar ganglion according to their different symptom. We can judge the diseased region exactly and have a radio frequency heat cure aims at the blocked part. With this technology, we can not only make a judgement about the treatment effect, but also we can Minimize the damaged area.

4.       A microtrauma, safe and painless operation, which the elder patients can tolerate, even patients in poor health or have complication can endure too. Patients needn’t be in hospital, they can accept the treatment as out-patients. The whole time of operation is about 30 min and soon after the operation, patients can leave the hospital.

5.       Patients are given a consultation involve doctors from neurology, neurosurgery, gamma knife therapy center and pain treatment center. Doctors can design a most suitable medical plan for patients themselves, so that the limitation of diagnosis and treat by a single section office can be avoided.

6.       Doctors in Pain Treatment Centre are all experienced, now they had carried out radio frequency therapy operation on trigeminal disease successfully for over 600 patients.

Background of Beijing Tiantan Hospital:

Established in 1956, Beijing Tiantan Hospital boasts a strong reputation both as one of the world’s top three neurosurgical research institutes and also as Asia’s largest centre for neurosurgical therapy, research and education. It has currently been appointed as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) neurosurgical training centre for China.

Beijing Tiantan Hospital and Neurosurgery Institute has a staff of 2,115 employees, including a professional staff of 1,787 individuals and a senior staff of 313 top global medical professionals. The Hospital has 33 departments that cover a wide range of practices, including Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuroradiology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics/Gynecology. The clinical, research, and teaching staff are all housed in one fully modern facility. The Hospital is equipped with 950 beds, of which Neurosurgery accounts for 300. Neurosurgery at the Hospital is divided into 9 major groups: Cerebrovascular Diseases, Intracranial Tumors, Injuries, Pediatrics, Spinal, Functional Diseases, and Neuroradiology. Beijing Tiantan Hospital’s group of outstanding specialists include world-famous neurosurgeons Dr. Zhongchen Wang, Dr. Yadu Zhao, and Dr. Yanzhong Zhao. Each year the Hospital performs neurosurgery on well over 4,000 patients. Under the leadership of Dr. Zhongchen Wang, the team performs a broad scope of complex operations, including treatment using stem cells, treatment of stem tumors, giant intramedullary spinal cord tumors, giant intracranial aneurysms and cerebral vascular malformations. Both the quality and the quantity of the operations at Beijing Tiantan are performed at the most advanced levels found anywhere in the world.

Beijing Tiantan Hospital is equipped with extremely advanced equipment and the latest medical devices, including gamma knives, laser surgery knives, operation navigational systems, MRI, CT, DSA, SPECT, X knives, color ultrasound and biochemical analyzers. All operations are performed under the latest and best telescope equipment. As well, the world’s most advanced techniques are utilized in order to improve the quality of all operations including use of the gamma knife, Neuronavigational operations, Neuroendoscopic Minimally Invasive operations, Stereotactic surgery and intensive micro-polar stimulation.