Seeing the "understanding" glance from his uncle, Cao Yong looked forward. His uncle is a big shot in neurosurgery, quick-witted, and quickly noticed his pounding heart.

The nephew was slightly embarrassed to be observed like this. Zhai Yunsheng smiled warmly with his eyes. Actually, with such a diligent, talented, and charming girl, no senior in the medical field would dislike her.

"Continue speaking." Deputy Director Lv, having wiped his reddened face, spoke to Student Xie in a more humble and softened tone.

"Doctor Song’s capability is known to Teacher Lv. If Doctor Song truly wants to try tackling the posterior circulation aneurysm, he can. However, the problem arises elsewhere, which is quite troublesome," Xie Wanying articulated the surgical strategy thoroughly.

"What’s the trouble?"

"Whether only these three aneurysms impact, or the particular connection between these three aneurysms and the optic artery needs to be deciphered."

What does she mean? Her words first shocked the cardiology team rather than the neurosurgeons. Today, it’s not the neurosurgeons that are surprising them, but Student Xie.

The surroundings went quiet, and everyone waited for her to reveal the answer.

"Don’t forget the patient’s symptoms and the purpose of performing this surgery. The PICA aneurysm was incidentally found, not within our preoperative discussion scope, seemingly unrelated to ocular blood supply, and can be handled together. The issue is from the current results, the position of the two aneurysms in the anterior circulation is difficult to assert as greatly related to the ocular blood supply. To determine if the three aneurysms are connected with the optic artery, this cannot be resolved by just going to the third-floor operating room; further investigation is needed in the interventional surgery room to seek the opportunity to address the ocular issue as we proceed," Xie Wanying said.

"Wait, why do you say the two anterior circulation aneurysms are not greatly related to the optic artery?"

"They are at the distal branches of the middle cerebral artery."

The distant aneurysms’ potential to influence the optic artery requires careful confirmation.

With her clarification, everyone recalled Doctor Hu’s eye disease symptoms, aimed at dislodging the embolus in the central retinal artery during this surgery.

"The retinal artery doesn’t go in, does it?"

The cardiology team on site observed and inquired earnestly, rapidly getting up to speed with neurosurgery knowledge. Being top scholars from elite hospitals, learning quickly, they seized the main points and initiated a spirited discussion:

"Forget the retinal artery; even distant parts of the optic artery are inaccessible."

"Are there many branches of the optic artery?"

"Yes, including the posterior ciliary arteries."

"The current situation is——"

"As she said, no embolus is seen near the optic artery; the embolus went further away. The catheter can’t reach it. It seems their neurosurgery team considered this, hoping to find the causative aneurysm affecting the optic artery."

"Such surgical planning is quite difficult," Lin Chenrong voiced the initial conclusion felt by everyone, "If you handle all these three aneurysms, if indeed they’re related to the patient’s eye symptoms, could finishing the treatment instead lead to complete blindness?"

This possibility might indeed exist.

According to the earlier preoperative idealizations, if there was only one aneurysm and its position could be easily assessed, removing it might allow the optic artery embolus to fall out.

Yet, surgeries often encounter unforeseen situations, conflicting with preoperative predictions. Today’s test results are highly unexpected, diverging far from preoperative assumptions. The positions of the three aneurysms are somewhat inexplicable, decisively confusing the neurosurgeons.