Two Dombivili-based surgeons have performed a series of 30-odd surgeries, leaving absolutely no incision scars.
Two Dombivili surgeons team up with one from UK to perform 30 scar-free surgeries
MUMBAI: Two Dombivili-based surgeons have performed a series of 30-odd surgeries, leaving absolutely no incision scars. The scar-free surgeries, performed for the first time in the world, include complex operations, such as removal of kidney, gall bladder, appendix, removal of unusually large kidney stones, as well as orchidoplexy (surgical removal of testes).
“The technique, termed as ‘One Port Umbilicus Surgery’ (OPUS), is a revolutionary laparoscopic surgical procedure which completely eliminates post-surgical scars,” said Dr Pradeep Rao, urologist, a member of the surgical team. He, along with his brother Dr Prashanth Rao, general surgeon, teamed up with UK-based urosurgeon Dr Abhay Rane to perform over 30 abdominal surgeries since May at the 50-bed Mamata Hospital in Dombivili.
In OPUS, the surgeon uses a pre-existing scar in the body, the umbilicus or the belly button, as a port to insert the surgical instruments. “This is done with the use of a new device which allows the surgeon to pass several surgical instruments through a single incision, in this case the umbilicus,” explained Pradeep Rao.
For the past three years, surgeons had been trying to perform operations, termed as Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), through the mouth or the vagina. “The idea is to make no new opening and use a pre-existing opening to operate. However, these surgeries are very difficult to perform and hence, the success rate is not high,” explained Pradeep Rao.
More than 40 lakh laparoscopic surgical procedures are performed in the world each year. Traditional laparoscopic surgeries require between three and five incisions in the abdomen, resulting in two to four permanent scars. However, OPUS, which requires no incision, makes the surgeon’s task easy.
“The most significant advantage of this surgery, apart from the cosmetic benefit, is that the patient suffers very little pain in the recovery period,” said Prashanth Rao.
According to the duo, OPUS would soon become the most preferred technique in abdominal surgery. Pradeep Rao intends to present a paper on this at the World Congress of Urologists in Mexico next week.
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