Doctors at a city hospital surgically removed a tumour weighing nine kilograms from the chest of a 41-year-old Iraqi patient, gifted his life. A tumour was created in the man’s mediastinum (a membranous partition between the lungs), crushing his lungs and heart. This had caused his arteries to constrict, his breathing to become laboured and shallow and sharp pains to shoot up and down his chest.
“Patient Dhyee Saleem had been consistently feeling breathless. He was unable to walk or talk without gasping for air. He had consulted several doctors and had undergone numerous tests. However, none of these yielded any concrete results,” said Dr Udgit Dhir, Director and Head of Department, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Memorial Research Institute.
He was getting exhausted easily and was don’t have the ability for his daily work. His condition was reaching to critical when he admitted the Fortis Hospital.
According to the diagnosis result that there was a huge lump of mass existing on the right side of the heart-destroying the blood vessels, thus obstructing the blood flow from the right ventricle to the left ventricle which had led to the low supply of oxygen further results the stage of breathlessness in the patient, Dhir said.
Read More: A 22-year-old Indian-American IT professional runs for governor of California
After the diagnosis, the patient was prepared for surgery which lasted for four hours. The surgery occurred on April 21. The patient recovered in three days, a post which he was discharged and is leading a healthy life now, he said.
“It is very rare to come across such a case. This was a person who was living for several months with a nine k.g tumour. It was a challenging case as the tumour was compressing the right ventricular outflow tract, other adjoining structures and great vessels. It had made the expansion of lungs difficult. Employing surgical techniques helped in the successful removal of a tumour,” Dr Dhir said.
Post Your Comments