JAIPUR: Despite the number of
surgeries has taken a dip due to Covid-19 pandemic, the city’s doctors achieved success in performing rare surgeries.
From SMS Hospital, where doctors performed surgery of atrio-ventricular septal defect by a small incision, to private hospitals performing a single surgery for multiple cancer in a patient, the doctors performed rare surgeries along with two cadaver organ donations and transplantation of organs have also been done.
In November, the SMS Hospital doctors used single incision for the first time for performing surgeries on a 19-year-old patient suffering from
atrio-ventricular spetal defect, a rare congenital anomaly of heart.
“A small incision is given below the breast crease that is non-bone cutting and cannulation for cardio-pulmonary by-pass is also done by the same incision,” said Dr Anil Sharma, head of the department (cardiac surgery), SMS Hospital.
A team of surgeons at a private hospital performed rare surgery when a they removed tumours from 59-year-old woman suffering from cancer in multiple organs in a single surgery on November 18. The surgery was performed in four hours where the team of doctors removed cancer tumours from the arm, kidney and armpit with minimum blood loss. Surgical oncologist Dr Prashant Sharma had discovered that the cancer had originated from the patient’s right kidney and had extended to the left arm bone and axilla.
A team of doctors removed tumour from cervical through a single approach technique. “We have performed 360-degree cervical spinal fusion through single approach for removing cervical tumour involving spinal cord, food pipe and vertebral artery,” said, Dr
Kamal Goyal, neurosurgeon of a private hospital.
“Single approach technique is a challenging one, as there is a risk of injury to food pipe, vertebral artery, spinal cord and possibility of incomplete tumour excision,” Dr Abul Hasan, another neurosurgeon.
A middle aged female patient from Kolkata was suffering from a painful swelling in abdomen due to a rare disease called Benign Multicystic Peritoneal Mesothelioma underwent surgery in the city.
“This operation involves major resection of all the peritoneal layer followed by 90 minutes of chemotherapy circulated through the peritoneal cavity at the temperature of 43-45 ° Celsius,” said Dr Sundeep Jain, oncosurgeon at a private hospital.