Central Florida hospital offers brain surgery without incisions

University of Central Florida's (UCF) Lake Nona Medical Center is now the first hospital in Central Florida to provide brain surgery without incisions.

Imagine brain surgery without having to go under the knife.

"There was no pain. No medication afterward. There's no cut on my head. My head is 100 percent whole," patient Jen Stratton said of the surgery. 

She had brain surgery last week at the UCF Lake Nona Medical Center without having to have any incisions. It treated the essential tremor she had been living with since childhood, which made her hands shake. But now, they do not shake anymore. 

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UCF Lake Nona Medical Center is the first hospital in Central Florida to offer incisionless brain surgery in Central Florida. The surgery can treat essential tremor and tremors caused by Parkinson's Disease.

Stratton is just one of three hospital patients who have had the surgery so far.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Nizam Razack performs the surgery using an MRI. It takes about three hours. 

"So, what it involves is transferring energy to the brain. Sound wave energy deep in the brain and heat that part of the brain up to create a lesion, like a mini-stroke if you will. And by creating that lesion, we can control or stop the patient’s tremor," Dr. Razack said. "Who wants to have a hole made in their skull if they don't have to?"

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Stratton said that open brain surgery was not an option for her, citing that "All of the different cures are worse than having a tremor. So, I had to live with it until now. I really felt like I could possibly be stuck with it and it would only get worse for the rest of my life so I had that sentence taken away from me. That life sentence is gone."

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