Scoliosis Dr. Lastra
What is neurosurgery?
Neurosurgery is the specialty dedicated to the study and treatment of injuries and diseases of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves. Neurosurgical diseases mainly affect the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve disorders
Dr. Lastra Garcia is a renowned specialist in Neurosurgery. He has more than 15 years of experience in the profession and extensive training in different fields of the specialty. Specifically, he is an expert in minimally invasive spinal surgery, brain tumors, vertebral deformity surgery, scoliosis surgery without fusion (Vertebral Body Tethering), lumbar and cervical herniated discs, and vertebral fixation with a navigator. .
Parallel to his care work, he develops an important research and informative task, being a speaker at congresses of the specialty. He has also combined his profession with teaching as a professor of Neurosurgery in the teaching unit of the Parc Taulí Health Corporation, together with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has been a speaker at various congresses and conferences related to his specialty. He is currently an associate neurosurgeon at Centro Teknon Doctor, Sagrada Família Clinic and Salut i més, of the Terrassa Health Consortium.
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Vertebral Body Tethering
Brain glioma surgery with intraoperative fluorescence
Dr. Roberto Lastra during his time on the program What's wrong with me, doctor? de La Sexta explained brain tumor surgery to a 78-year-old patient with a brain glioma, the most frequent tumor, with intraoperative fluorescence
Images provided by the program "En buenas manos" on La Sexta TV.
Dr. Roberto Lastra, neurosurgeon at Neuroclínica Quirúrgica BCN, which is a medical institute specialized in neurosurgery, located at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona, addresses the program 'What's wrong with me, doctor?' from La Sexta, brain tumors.
Every year 3,500 new cases of brain tumors are diagnosed in Spain. A pathology that can appear at any age, but whose incidence grows in childhood between 5 and 14 years of age and in adults from 45 years of age, affecting men more. In children, brain tumors are usually primary, that is, the tumor mass originates in the brain. But in adults the most common are secondary or metastatic, which come from other tumors, especially lung and breast.
It is a disease that brings together more than 120 types of tumors. “The most frequent brain tumors are medulloblastomas in childhood and gliomas in adults”, highlights Dr. Lastra.
Regarding the symptoms, the expert affirms that "some of the main ones are epileptic seizures, vomiting or visual disturbances."
In recent years, the progress that has occurred in neurosurgery, which uses intraoperative imaging techniques that allow greater precision, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have made survival and cure rates evolve very favourably.
High-definition Magnetic Resonance is the essential diagnostic test for tumor localization.
Evolution of robotic surgery
Robots have recently been developed, robotic arms that allow brain surgeries to be performed and allow the implantation of devices at the intracranial level, also greatly increasing precision and being able to determine exactly in which anatomical location of the brain we want to implant these devices.