Doctor Zhao, help!

Chapter 111 The Parasitized Brain
[My brain was eaten by worms? 】

The girl, whose face turned pale, typed a sentence on the phone with trembling hands in fear.

Affected by the parasite in her brain, the girl's thinking is no longer clear at this moment.

"Let's do a cysticercosis antibody test first."

Zhao Sheng said to the old couple.

"Okay, okay."

The old couple nodded.

Next, Zhao Sheng gave the old couple a check-up, and the girl went for a test.

After half an hour.

Still outside the MRI examination room, Zhao Sheng held in his hand the expedited positive test result for cysticercosis antibody.

"It is certain that it is a pork tapeworm infection. Now we are using some drugs to suppress the reaction of the parasites in the brain, and then we will do another examination."

Zhao Sheng said to the old couple, and the girl, although she is still conscious at this moment, actually has cognitive function problems. This is because the language and cognitive function areas are adjacent to each other in the brain partitions, and one area appears in the other. If the problem is solved, there will also be a certain impact in another area.

"Doctor, after the diagnosis is confirmed, will I need surgery?"

The old man asked worriedly.

It's not a good thing to think about having this bug growing in your brain, and it sounds too scary.

"We have to wait for the results of the MRI examination to come out. If the lesion is relatively large, then ordinary drug treatment will not be effective, and surgery must be performed."

Zhao Sheng explained.

"Doctor, if surgery is really needed, will this surgery have any impact on the brain in the future?"

The old man asked again.

My daughter is a kindergarten teacher. As a kindergarten teacher, being able to sing, dance, and speak eloquently are basic skills. If you have surgery and your brain is not working well, you will not be able to do this job.

"Brain surgeries are risky, but under normal circumstances, the postoperative recovery of neurocysticercosis surgery is relatively good. The patient's current symptoms of headache and aphasia are caused by the compression of brain tissue by the neurocysticercosis mass. Yes, after surgical removal, the impact on the brain will disappear."

Song Sixian said very professionally that as a neurosurgeon, he has done a lot of neurocysticercosis surgeries. It is really very rare for neurocysticercosis to occur in such a young girl.

"Thank you doctor, thank you."

After hearing Song Sixian's professional explanation, the old man felt a little less anxious and nervous, but he still felt that his daughter had suffered too much.

His daughter likes to travel and try new things. In his opinion, this is normal. Young people all like these things.

However, just because I ate unclean food while traveling, I had to undergo a craniotomy. From this point of view, the price paid was a bit too high.

after an hour.

The girl who had taken suppressive drugs lay down in the MRI cabin again.

Zhao Sheng and Song Sixian were both standing in the operation room, ready to view the inspection results in real time.

"Doctor Guo, you can start the examination."

Zhao Sheng said to MRI doctor Guo Yan.

"You won't be unconscious again this time, right?"

After hearing Zhao Sheng's words, Guo Yan said with some uncertainty. "No, after taking the medicine, the larvae in the patient's brain have been suppressed. Originally, this kind of reaction to the strong magnetic field would only appear in the larvae of the parasite."

Zhao Sheng said with certainty.

"I think this is a very interesting topic. Regarding the response of parasite larvae to strong magnetic fields, maybe we can study something based on the response of strong magnetic fields to larvae."

Song Sixian said with great interest.

"If you put it this way, it is actually not as small as a parasite. Some scientists have done experiments. When a frog is placed in a strong magnetic field of 30T, the frog will show a weak anti-gravity phenomenon. The strong magnetic field has a strong impact on the tiny structures and structures in the body. The liquid matrix has a very profound impact."

After hearing Song Sixian's words, Zhao Sheng's thinking was a little divergent and he said.

"The occurrence of antigravity should be because the strong magnetic field adjusts the molecules in the liquid matrix inside the organism, generating a reverse force."

Guo Yan continued to speak while operating the machine on the console.

He was originally specialized in nuclear magnetic resonance, and his research on biomagnetic fields was deeper than that of pure doctors like Zhao Sheng and Song Sixian.

The working principle of nuclear magnetic resonance is actually to generate nuclear spin through the hydrogen nuclei in water molecules or fat molecules, resulting in the emergence of magnetic moments. The nuclear magnetic moments can cause moving nuclei in a stationary external magnetic field, thus causing energy level splitting, plus an alternating magnetic field. As a result, the spin core absorbs electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies, and the low energy level can jump to a high energy level to generate a signal.

Soon, real-time MRI brain images appeared on the monitor.

Guo Yan was also reading the films very carefully. After a while, he pointed to a place on the screen and said to Zhao Sheng and Song Sixian: "That's it! There are small round cystic lesions scattered in the temporal area, with a diameter of about 5 -10mm, punctate scolex can be seen in the cyst, and there is no obvious edema around the cyst.”

"It's true that there are multiple small cysts in the active stage. Judging from the MRI results, although the cysticerci are in the active stage, they are still relatively localized. However, there are too many and surgery is necessary."

After seeing the MRI image, Song Sixian quickly made a very professional judgment.

The localization of cysticerci is an ideal situation, which means that the operation will have a better result. As long as the cysticerci are removed by craniotomy, the brain compressed by the cysticerci will recover its functions, and the probability of postoperative sequelae is also reduced. will be greatly reduced.

If the cysticerci really grow into adult worms and invade the brain tissue, to this extent, even if the removal surgery is performed, it will cause irreversible damage to the brain tissue.

Patients will experience postoperative sequelae such as long-term headaches, dizziness, and varying degrees of speech dysfunction.

For a kindergarten teacher, even a slight speech dysfunction means that her career has ended prematurely.

The results of the examination were clear. The test for cysticercosis antibodies was positive, and the MRI examination also found the lesions. The next step was to arrange elective surgery.

After leaving the examination room, Song Sixian and Zhao Sheng briefly explained the condition to the old couple and the girl.

[Doctor, do you need to shave your head for surgery? 】

After hearing about the condition and the need for craniotomy, the girl typed a line on her mobile phone with a look of nervousness on her face.

"For craniotomy, the head must be shaved."

Song Sixian nodded and said.

For craniotomy, of course you have to shave your head. As for shaving only part of the hair and leaving part of the hair for future beauty, that is an international joke.

Whoever wants to do this must be a Mongolian doctor who cares about human life.

"Shanshan, don't be afraid. Your hair can still grow, so don't be afraid."

The old lady quickly comforted her daughter and said.

The girl looked sad. She had been growing her long hair since junior high school. It was not only for beauty, but also for the memory of youth.

(End of this chapter)