The first case in China! HKU-Shenzhen Hospital completed the clinical service case of "Magnetic Wave Knife" in the brain

The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (hereinafter referred to as "HKU-Shenzhen Hospital") announced on the 18th that Mr.
Wang, who has suffered from essential tremor for many years, recently successfully performed magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS, also known as "magnetic wave knife") treatment in the hospital, which solved the problem
of tremor in the right hand.

It is reported that Mr.
Wang has been diagnosed with essential tremor for many years
.
In the past two years, he found that his right hand was shaking even more, his hand was shaking non-stop when writing, eating, and drinking, and the amplitude was getting bigger and bigger, and the drugs that had worked were gradually ineffective, and his life became a constant need for help from others
.

Li Yongjie, director of the Center for Neurology at HKU Shenzhen Hospital, which is responsible for the treatment of Mr.
Wang's tremor, said that essential tremor, also known as primary tremor, is a movement disorder disease with postural or action tremor as the main clinical manifestation, and it is also one of the most common neurological diseases in clinical practice, mainly manifested as uncontrollable tremor of the hands, head, voice or other parts of the body.
Surgery became a necessary option
.
”

Previously, Mr.
Wang had a lot of worries about craniotomy, fearing not only the operation itself, but also the long postoperative recovery time, which would bring more inconvenience
to subsequent life.
By chance, he learned about the well-established non-innovative technology of the brain "magnetic wave knife"
that has been applied.

Li Yongjie said: "In the past, neurosurgical functional surgery required surgery or cranial drilling, and some had to implant equipment in the body, which limited the treatment
of some patients who were unwilling or unsuitable for craniotomy.
Although the brain 'magnetic wave knife' is called a knife, it does not open a knife, and the treatment does not require general anesthesia, the effect is immediate, the patient's recovery time is short, and there is no risk of postoperative intracranial infection, which brings new hope
for the treatment of patients with essential tremor and tremor Parkinson's disease.
”

With the joint efforts of the hospital team, Mr.
Wang responded well after surgery, the tremor was immediately controlled, and he was successfully discharged from the hospital
the next day.

It is understood that HKU-Shenzhen Hospital is the first hospital to install the "Magnetic Knife" system in China after it was approved by the National Medical Products Administration, and it is also the first hospital in China to carry out the "Magnetic Knife" clinical service, so that patients can obtain non-invasive and non-ionizing radiation treatment
for brain diseases with world-class medical equipment.