FINR (Interventional Neuro- radiology)- Institute of Neuro-Radiology, University Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
AWARDS & HONOURS
Has done more than ten thousand Neurosurgeries and two and half thousand endovascular procedures.
credited with microsurgical separation of six months old two conjoined twins for the first time in India.
Dr Vikas Gupta is the as Head of Neurosurgery and Neuro-interventional surgery at Manipal Hospital, Dwarka. He is one of few handful Neurosurgeons in country, who treats vascular diseases by microsurgery and endovascular routes. He is also one of early neuro-interventist who started treating Acute stroke way back in 2012 by endovascular route now he is routinely doing endovascular stroke, intracranial aneurysm coil embolization and arteriovenous malformations. He has treated many endovascular patients whose disease recurred and were refused treatment in even in Germany using unique combination of new and conventional devices.
In Neuro-intervention, he is credited with highest number patients being treated for embolization treatment of the brain AVMs for last couple of years. He has treated a one day old child with vein of Galen malformation with cardiac failure who survived and is doing well. For craniosynostosis kids few weeks old have been treated in his passion.
He is credited with microsurgical seperation of six months old two conjoined twins for the first time in the country. Both kids survived the complex operation without any neurological deficit. This particular surgery was covered by Discovery Channel in an hour long documentary.
He is one of the few surgeons from India, who have operated abroad routinely like Tashkant, Kathmandu.
He is one of early neurosurgeons to adopt minimally invasive techniques in spine, Neuro endoscopy for hydrocephalous and pituitary tumors. His majority of pituitary surgery is through trans nasal trans-sphenoidal route, and in skull base nerve preserving tumor removals.
He is a passionate neurovascular surgeon, versatile as he operates brain tumors mainly located in critical areas, using most modern intra operative advances like intra operative nerve monitoring and neuro navigation.
