New keyhole surgery spells hope for patients with haemorrhagic stroke

National Neuroscience Institute Neurosurgery Research Director Assistant Professor Nicolas Kon Kam King holding the BrainPath’s obturator inside a sheath in a demonstration of how it is used. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
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SINGAPORE - One minute he was in the bathroom and getting ready to go out, and the next, his family found him lying in the bathtub conscious but unable to speak.

Mr Anindya Mitra, 68, was in Singapore visiting his daughter last July when he suffered the deadliest, most debilitating form of stroke - haemorrhagic stroke, which happens when blood floods in or around the brain and creates swelling and pressure.

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