Achieving an important feat, docs at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital performed a 3.5-hour operation on a 52-year-old lady and efficiently eliminated a big ovarian tumour weighing 50 kg.

According to hospital officers, the docs adopted a multi-disciplinary strategy to deal with the affected person, who’s a resident of the nationwide capital.

The lady had been gaining weight for the previous few months and weighed a complete of 106 kg and he or she had lately began experiencing issue in respiration, acute ache in her decrease stomach, and consequently issue in strolling and sleeping, the hospital mentioned in an announcement.

It mentioned that upon investigation on the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, it was revealed that the lady had a large, progressively increasing tumour in her ovary and this was placing stress on her gut inflicting acute stomachache and lack of ability to digest meals, and her hemoglobin had dropped to six inflicting extreme anemia.

A crew of surgeons led by Dr Arun Prasad, Senior Consultant, Surgical Gastroenterology and Bariatric Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, performed a three-and-a-half-hour lengthy surgical procedure for extraction of the 50 kg tumour on August 18.

Elaborating on the case, Dr Arun Prasad, mentioned, “In over 30 years of my experience as a surgeon I have never come across a case where the tumor weighed almost half the person’s body weight. There was a case reported in 2017 as the largest from Coimbatore where a lady was operated for a 34 kg tumour in her ovary.”

“Extraction of a 50 kg tumour was a challenge for the team. More so because the patient had exceptionally low hemoglobin and had to undergo six units of blood transfusion (in total) before, during and after the procedure,” Dr Arun Prasad mentioned.

“There was no space in the abdomen for insertion of equipment via laparoscopy or robot-assisted methods, hence we had to resort to traditional methods of surgery. With the combined effort of experts from the Gastroenterology, Gynecology and Anesthesiology teams, the extraction was done successfully,” he defined.

A key surgeon on this case, Dr Abhishek Tewari, mentioned that the affected person was admitted with complaints of stomachache, respiration stress and apparent weight acquire.

“She was advised immediate surgery else the tumour would have grown exponentially and caused pressure on other organs leading to possible organ failure. Fortunately, the tumour was benign and the patient had no co-morbidities, which enabled a faster recovery. Post-surgery her weight dropped to 56 kg,” Dr Abhishek Tewari mentioned.

Dr Geeta Chadha, Senior Consultant, Gynecology and Obstetrics at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, mentioned that there isn’t a confirmed motive for an emergence of a tumour within the ovary, however it may possibly occur in the course of the formation of the cells in a human physique.

“As a first-ever case of a 50 kg tumour in the ovary, this was a challenging procedure. Due to the giant tumour, the intestinal tract throughout was compressed and flattened which was putting pressure on the gut leading to risk of rupture in the ovary,” Dr Geeta Chadha mentioned.

She mentioned that the surgical procedure needed to be performed with utmost precision, preserving in thoughts seamless extraction of the tumour and concurrently making certain no hurt was precipitated to the ovary or the intestine and added that the affected person confirmed great restoration post-procedure and was set to be discharged as we speak.