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Hi-tech operation saves patient

A city hospital has claimed to have successfully cleared a blockage in the esophagus of a 17-year old girl, who had swallowed sulphuric acid.

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COIMBATORE: A city hospital has claimed to have successfully cleared a blockage in the esophagus of a 17-year old girl, who had swallowed sulphuric acid in a bid to commit suicide in 2005.

As the girl, hailing from Jagadalpur in Chattisgarh, had developed difficulty in swallowing food and was continuously vomitting, she was taken to various hospitals in Hyderabad, Chennai and Vellore, but without relief, Dr V G Mohan Prasad, Chief Gastroenterologist of K G Hospitals told reporters here.

Repeated balloon dilations done eight times through endoscopy at Hyderabad could not dilate the narrowing in the food pipe and hence the patient could not take solid food at all in the past two years, he said.

At the hospital, doctors found that her esophagus had tightened heavily, as a result of which she could not consume solids or liquids.

A sophisticated procedure called 'Esophageal Polyflex Stenting,' was performed on the patient on June 27 and the blockage was cleared, Prasad said, adding that she can now drink and eat solid food.
  
"She is now on the road to recovery and will be discharged in a few day's time", Dr Prasad said.

Polyflex stent is made of expansible plastic materials and in a collapsed state, has a diameter of 12mm. It can be removed endoscopically after six months and 90 per cent of the structures do not recur. This procedure obviates the need for surgery, Prasad said.

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