Optic nerve meningioma

The Advanced Radiosurgery Institute is focused on obtaining the best results in cases of patients who until now did not have a good prognosis for their treatment, such as in the case of a patient with optic nerve meningioma.

IRCA, with its most innovative stereotactic brain radiosurgery system (ZAP-X), is able to treat benign and malignant lesions of the brain, head and neck with high precision and non-invasively.

The sum of the most innovative techniques together with the centre’s great professional team, who are not only dedicated to medicine, but also to teaching and research, means that patients with these pathologies and with complicated prognoses can be treated. One of these cases in which the application of radiosurgery by means of ZAP-X has been necessary was to treat a meningioma of the optic nerve in one of our patients.

Today we would like to tell you some details about how the complicated intervention was carried out on a patient with optic nerve meningioma.

After feeling discomfort in her left eye, the 39-year-old patient was diagnosed with a left optic nerve meningioma. Upon learning of her diagnosis, the patient came to our centre to find out what her treatment options were.

Once she was assessed, it was concluded that surgery was not possible in her case, due to the high risk of vision loss. After ruling out surgery, she was kept under observation to monitor the progress of the lesion with protrusion of the eyeball out of the orbit.

Optic nerve meningioma treatment with ZAP-X

Our medical team, led by Dr. Kita Sallabanda and Dr. Morena Sallabanda, offers a solution: to undergo radiosurgery for 5 sessions in order to give an effective dose to the tumour, thus preserving the function of the patient’s optic nerve.

Thanks to the use of ZAP-X, the objectives that were initially set after the patient’s arrival were achieved: tumour control and saving her optic nerve.

Meningioma is a tumour located in the protective membrane around the brain and spinal cord. In certain cases it can compress the brain or nerves, as it is an aggressive tumour that grows rapidly.

As with this patient, the symptoms of meningioma are related to the senses, depending on where in the body it is located. In this woman’s case, everything affected was related to her sense of sight.