{"id":534008,"date":"2026-07-05T10:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534008\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:01:08","slug":"surgeons-remove-brain-tumour-through-eyelid-in-irish-medical-first-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/534008\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons remove brain tumour through eyelid in Irish medical first \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish surgeons at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/beaumont-hospital\">Beaumont hospital<\/a> have performed a pioneering surgery removing a brain tumour through a patient\u2019s eyelid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Believed to be the first time this approach has been taken in Ireland, the minimally invasive surgery reduces the trauma to the brain itself and the chance of complications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The patient, Iveta Pompova, was experiencing blurred vision and headaches when doctors noticed her right eyeball was starting to protrude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking through her daughter, also named Iveta, who was acting as a translator, the 57-year-old Slovakian woman said she had symptoms for a while before she sought medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cHer right eye was always swollen. We didn\u2019t pay much attention to it. But she went to the Mater hospital and he saw something, he saw that her eye was being pushed out of the skull,\u201d Pompova said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cShe was always saying her head was sore. She was seeing flashing light, blurriness, it wasn\u2019t clear. She had strong headaches, pain in her nose, under her eye and in her ear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Pompova underwent an MRI and a common type of benign brain tumour, known as a meningioma, was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In July 2025, she underwent the procedure, known as a transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery, in Beaumont Hospital under the care of Prof Mohsen Javadpour, consultant neurosurgeon, and Tim Fulcher, consultant ophthalmologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAfter the surgery, Prof Javadpour told us he removed enough tumour and it looks like she doesn\u2019t need to go to radiotherapy. She just wanted it [the tumour] out of here because it was giving her pain,\u201d Pompova said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cEveryone was nervous. We were praying in the chapel until the surgery but we knew she was in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Javadpour said they opted for that approach to the surgery because the \u201cless you interfere with the brain itself, the better\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cNormally when you operate on a brain tumour you do a craniotomy [removing a section of the skull to access the brain] with a 15 to 20cm incision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIn this lady\u2019s surgery, you do a 2cm incision in the crease of the eye socket. You remove a little bit of the orbital bone and you\u2019re in the eye socket. The eye socket then is being used as a corridor to access the brain; that reduces the trauma to the brain itself and there is less chance of complications relating to surgery. When it heals it\u2019s almost invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">According to the neurosurgeon, this surgery reduces the amount of time a person would need to stay in hospital post-operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe would have to keep patients in for two or three nights instead of 10 to 14 nights for traditional surgery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This could be a benefit to the health system, he added, as non-cancerous brain tumours are quite common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t do it for a tumour farther back. But every case you can do that lessens the stay in hospital, the better. It directly and indirectly helps the health system.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish surgeons at Beaumont hospital have performed a pioneering surgery removing a brain tumour through a patient\u2019s eyelid.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41038,103,61,60,61999],"class_list":["post-534008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-beaumont-hospital","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mater-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}