"The patient has had high blood pressure for many years, now classified as Grade 3 extremely high risk, along with Grade III heart failure. Given the patient's condition, microvascular decompression of the trigeminal nerve is not feasible."
Liu Haipeng shook his head slightly, speaking with some gravity.
This microvascular decompression surgery involves using a microscope to move away the blood vessels compressing the trigeminal nerve, relieving the pressure on the nerve, thus alleviating the patient's clinical symptoms.
The trigeminal nerve is the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which means it is located in the brain.
In other words, performing a microvascular decompression would require a craniotomy.
Given the patient's hypertension and heart failure, a craniotomy is certainly out of the question.
"Then we are left with the option of nerve puncture block."
Zhao Heng nodded slowly as he spoke.
