Sagaya Fernando Mumbai: 28 September 2022 In a bizarre case, doctors in India surgically removed 62 spoons from the stomach and one spoon lodged in the intestine of a patient. The patient named Vijay was brought to Evan Hospital in Muzaffarnagar city of Uttar Pradesh, India, in the second week of September by his family members claiming that he had eaten a steel spoon. “The patient did not complain of any abdominal pain, but I conducted an examination of his stomach and came to the conclusion that some foreign objects are lodged in his stomach,” said surgeon Dr Rakesh Khurana who conducted the surgery. The doctor asked the patient to undergo an X-ray examination and was aghast to discover multiple spoons lodged in the patient’s stomach and one in the intestine. “On being asked, the patient admitted that he had been ingesting spoons for the past one year,” said Dr Khurana. Sensing the seriousness of the case, the patient was asked to undergo surgery at the earliest.
7228 gallstones removed by laparoscopy from 43-year-old-woman It took just 45 minutes for the laparoscopic surgery, but 4 hours to count the over 7200 gallbladder stones SAGAYA FERNANDO Mumbai: 23 September 2022 A 43-year-old woman having repeated attacks of pain in the abdomen was successfully treated recently for 7228 gall bladder stones by laparoscopic surgery at a hospital near Mumbai, India. She is a well educated lady residing in Mira Road in the outskirts of Mumbai and was treated by Dr Bimal C Shah, a senior laparoscopic surgeon at Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mira Road. The patient, a self employed professional, had been suffering from abdominal pains for the past couple of years. On August 17, 2022, she decided to approach Dr Shah for treatment. In normal circumstances, between two to 100 gallstones are removed during a surgery. But, 7228 gallstones is certainly rare. The gallstones ranged from 2 millimetres to 5 millimeters in size. “The entire gallbladder packed with so many s