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Another feather in PGI?s cap
A TEAM of doctors from different SGPGIMS departments performed a successful and rare operation on a resident of Bangkok. The operation is being observed as a real-time effort towards medical tourism since the doctors in Bangkok were unwilling to operate.
A TEAM of doctors from different SGPGIMS departments performed a successful and rare operation on a resident of Bangkok.
The operation is being observed as a real-time effort towards medical tourism since the doctors in Bangkok were unwilling to operate.
Chetan Bhansali (27) had a tumour on the external part of the kidney—A rare condition that gives high and low blood pressures consecutively to the patient..
He had shown to many doctors back home but doctors there told him about the threat perception of his kidney being removed with the operation. Another threat was of high and low blood pressures during intra-operative session and doctors said he should consider all these threats before actually going for the operation.
Bhansali came for a trip to India and consulted the doctors at Jaipur and New Delhi. The Indian doctors too repeated intra-operative complications but they referred him to SGPGIMS showing hope with the expertise available here.
Bhansali was admitted by Dr Sushil Gupta of the Endocrinology department and confirmed the patient for the adrenal tumour through the urine metanephrine testing. He also had the hernia problem.
A critical operation was then planned with the team of doctors including Dr KC Pant (anaesthesia), Dr Ashok Kumar (gastroenterology), Dr Rakesh Kapoor, Dr Amit Agrawal and other experts of the institute.
For the first time hernia was operated through the leproscopic technique and then the tumour was separated from the ureter to be extracted. A stent has been placed in the ureter tube and it was be removed when the patient comes for a follow up two months later.
Doctors said if the expertise of the institute was promulgated it could play vital role in promoting the concept of medical tourism in the country for Lucknow was just right with the road, rail and air routes.
Bhansali is all smiles now and would leave for Bangkok on Saturday but by the time he returns for a follow up in July, doctors hope more such cases would be here.
