Optic Nerve damage following brain surgery

Is it unusual to have optic nerve damage following a craniotomy to remove a brain tumor?  Don't neuro-surgeons monitor for this possibility?

[DrRakeshMD]

Hi Dear

Craniotomy means craeting an opening in the skull be removing the bone flap to have access to the brain lying underneath. Craniotomy may have to be performed for tumors, infection, fractures, blood clots, or swelling. A craniotomy may be simple and dime-sized or hey hole sized, or it may be large and complex generally involving the base of skull where arteries, veins, and nerves exit the skull.

As is said, no surgery if free of risks. The more complex the surgery, the higher are the risks. The risks associated with craniotoly include stroke, seizure, swelling, loss of mental functions, cranial nerve (including optic nerve) damage, etc. The risks may be diminished in highly experienced hands; however, there always remains a risk which also depends on the complexity of the surgery performed.

Best..

[marybeth617]

I too had surgery on a right carotid artery..stenting and coiling..non invasive, non craniotomy..however that was 5 years ago and took three surgeries...I am now experiencing the same problems with my right eye, nerve damage of several optic nerves, they actually stitched my other eye muscle down a bit to get a sweet spot to see better. Unfortunately, the right eye has continued to get worse and more fixated and palsied..i now have numbness over my forehead and into the hairline..I spent a week in MGH about a month ago for pain slicing through the eye.  Now I am on a second series of Steroid treatments. I had a meeting with the "team" and i got lost somewhere in the direction we are going..what i think i got was that eventually i would need to have a craniotomy to rewire the nerves? (bringing me down on a heart lung machine,,lowering body temp..etc.,) I was not a candidate for clipping or occlusion and the aneurysm itself seems to be in good shape..a little squishing but not much to worry about.  The concern is the pain.  can you explain what the surgery would actually be doing?  Is this a grafting procedure?

[oops11]

Hi doc, I had a crainiotomy 6 months ago I fell down a large flight of stairs and had a subdural hematoma. my question is after all the things  I had to learn how to do all over again I have very bad joint and muscle pain and insomnia is this normal? c.ouch