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Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia by MVD surgery

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Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia by MVD Surgery is a well-established option. MVD stands for Micro Vascular Decompression. This means that a microscope (with or without an endoscope) is used to decompress the Trigeminal Nerve from one or more blood vessels compressing it. The Micro Vascular Decompression is most often done using one or pieces of Teflon sponge.

Trigeminal Neuralgia Treatment by MVD surgery- a patient’s story in Hindi

This is a video testimonial of a patient who came to our MVD Centre from the United Kingdom for treatment of his Trigeminal neuralgia. He talks about the trigger factors that started his facial pain. He also talks about how he is pain free after MVD surgery. Please click here for other video testimonials.

If you want to watch MVD surgery and how it is done, please click here. You can go to our Home page to get all information about Trigeminal neuralgia.

Initially he faced facial numbness, but that gradually went away with time.

Dr Jaydev Panchwagh is an internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon who operates at the MVD Centre in Pune. He and his team have an experience of more than twenty years in dealing with patients of Trigeminal Neuralgia. There is a good support system in place for international patients as well. The centre also has a support group for Trigeminal neuralgia patients.

Microvascular decompression for TN

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Microvascular decompression for TN is a potentially curative surgery and can be a permanent solution.

In this video on treatment of Trigeminal neuralgia with Microvascular decompression surgery, a patient shares his experience 2 years later. Many questions like What is the main cause of Trigeminal neuralgia? and what is the best treatment of trigeminal neuralgia are answered. Do watch the entire video for all the answers.

He says “The pain of Trigeminal neuralgia was severe enough to contemplate suicide. It started suddenly, without warning, electric shock-like. And when I got the TN attacks, people around me would wonder what happened to me so suddenly? Medical treatment made me have memory loss and loss of balance. And it also made me very drowsy and numb. The medicines stopped having effect on my pain later on. Only the side-effects persisted because I was increasing my doses to get pain relief from my facial pain attacks.”

MVD surgery for Trigeminal neuralgia

Microvascular Decompression for TN is one of the many procedures that can be done to cure the pain of Trigeminal Neuralgia. However, this is the only possibly permanent treatment. The highest rate of success is in experienced hands. In this surgery a teflon piece is inserted between the blood vessel(s) and nerve to prevent compression.

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Dr Jaydev Panchwagh is the founder-Director of the MVD Centre in Pune. He is a well-established neurosurgeon of national and international repute. He is also founder-member of Synapse brain and Spine Foundation.